Eleştirel uluslararası ilişkiler yaklaşımları çerçevesinde amerikan dış politikasının analizi-hegemonya söylemi ve Amerikan muhafazakâr sağı-
Özet
This doctoral thesis offers a theoretical analysis of the American foreign policy from Reagan to the present in the context of the neo-Gramscian critical international theory by applying its concept of hegemony combining coercion and consent to the conduct of American foreign affairs. It also uses other concepts of the neo-Gramscian theory such as historical bloc, extended state and international organizations in its analysis. Its main argument is that the concept of hegemony seems one of the most convenient theoretical tools to analyze how the US has reversed its decline and restored its hegemony since the 1980s. By doing this, it aims at making a critical contribution to the literature. It starts its analysis with an account of the establishment, rise and decline of the post-war American hegemony in order to provide a foundation upon which further analysis can be based. The study then examines the American foreign policy under Reagan?s New Right administration, which sought to revive American supremacy on the basis of neoliberalism as a political project. It thirdly discusses how the neoliberal restructuring of the world continued under G. H. W. Bush and outlines his conservative foreign policy. The thesis focuses lastly on the neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration with its unilateral and coercive understanding of hegemony. The study ends with an overview of the main conclusions of the thesis in relation to the historical evolution and recent state of American hegemony within the context of the neo-Gramscian usage of the concept.