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The post-Soviet period when America had near-complete global control before financialization and manufacturing transfer to China.
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unipolar moment
The post-Soviet period when America had near-complete global control before financialization and manufacturing transfer to China.
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Glossary
The post-Cold-War American hegemonic order: globalized, capitalist, individualistic, and structured by Pax Americana, science, and the U.S. dollar.
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After the unipolar moment, Jiang says America shifted manufacturing to China, focused on finance, and thereby set up the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.
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Fukuyama's end-of-history thesis named the liberal consumer democracy as the supposed apex of civilization, and Jiang treats that as the ideology of a unique American-led unipolar moment.
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The current Iran war marks, for Jiang, the end of the unipolar moment created by American hegemony.
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Jiang warns that expecting the Iran war to settle quickly and restore the old world is fantasy; the unipolar moment has ended and the choice is adaptation or death.
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"...has complete control over the world. Something that we call a unipolar moment. All right? And during the unipolar moment, what happens is that..."
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"...apex of human civilization. And this creates what is called the unipolar moment. Where America is the global hegemon. And it creates a world..."
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"...possible. Okay? So these are the three main pillars of the Unipolar moment. And again, in the beginning, which was maybe the early 90s,..."
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"So you need to cause a national spiritual rejuvenation in your country. And if you are, in the gray, you might have issues, okay?..."
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"...wake up and recognize that this is the end of the unipolar moment. We're moving towards a new world. And you can either choose..."
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"...the place of the American empire. So we live in a unipolar moment. And the closest historical analogy to today is something called the..."
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"...These are three different empires. And the reality is that this unipolar moment where America controls everything, it is unique in human history."
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"...today. Okay? And his argument is this. His argument is this unipolar moment of American dominance, it's going to fade away because it's too..."
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"...the same time, what's happening is, that because America has the unipolar moment, everyone wants to invest in America because they think America is..."
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"...empire that controls science. And the third unique aspect of the Unipolar moment is, of course, the universality of the U.S. dollar. And it's..."
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"...Iran is happening because we've come to the end of the unipolar moment. Because the American empire has become corrupt, self -indulgent, lazy, arrogant...."
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"...Wall in 1991, we have been living in something called a unipolar moment, meaning there's only one hegemon, one superpower. And as such, the..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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