Challenged Hegemony

Steve A. Yetiv was Louis I. Jaffe Professor of International Relations at Old Dominion University.Katerina Oskarsson is a consultant to NATO on the Middle East and global security; Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Norfolk, Virginia; and an adjunct professor of international relations at Old Dominion University.

"Challenged Hegemony is a tour de force. This is a major work of scholarship on the United States, primarily, along with China and Russia, as participants in the political economy and security of the Persian Gulf. Establishing the importance of the question of US hegemony in regional, as opposed to strictly global, terms, Challenged Hegemony sees more continuity than change in the role of the US in the Persian Gulf. It should be required reading for those with interests in American foreign policy, the Persian Gulf and international relations in general."—Patrick James, Dornsife Dean's Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California "This engaging book studies a key question that will be of enduring interest to academics, policymakers, and the broader public: the future of US relative power. Challenged Hegemony addresses this essential issue in a novel way, by analyzing US, Russian, and Chinese relative capabilities at the regional level. The data challenges what many analysts believe to be true and convincingly argues that the United States is not in relative decline, at least in the Middle East, but on the rise."—Mark L. Haas, Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair in International Relations, Duquesne University

• 1. Introduction2. The United States and the Global Oil Era3. A New Security Framework4. The United States, Economics, and Energy5. China's Steep Ascent in the Persian Gulf6. Global Oil and China's Economic Penetration7. Russia: From Cold War to the Modern Era8. Russia's Trade and Energy Shift9. How America, China, and Russia Have Changed10. The Rise and Not Fall of Oil Security11. The Travails of Hegemony: A Classic Problem12. Conclusion