RESISTANCE TO HEGEMONY WITHIN THE CORE: Domestic Politics, Terrorism, and Policy Divergence in the G-7

Our approach to the topic of challenges to American hegemony places these challenges in a context focused on changes in hegemonic strength. We expect the nature, location, and salience of challenges to vary with the strength of the United States. Declining U.S. structural strength will affect both American strategies of maintaining the world order it desires and the nature of challenges from major allies and the institutions within which they work to maintain the status quo. We focus not on those in international politics who are dissatisfied with the status quo but on essentially status quo states in the hegemonic