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Global shift refers to the transformative, transitionary, aggregate, and multidimensional processes whereby a state, or a group of states, actively and strategically challenges the dominant power position of a status quo global hegemon or a leading group of states. Through dominance in the military and economic realms as well as in ideology, a status quo power is able to act as a global hegemon. A global hegemon has the power to effectively establish and maintain a global order of rules, norms, and institutions which govern, to a certain extent, world politics and the interaction of states, markets, and transnational civil society.

Three states are considered as having successfully established global hegemony over a certain period of time in the so-called “modern” era since the fifteenth century: the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America (US) (Wallerstein 2004, p. 57). However, hegemonies, at least over regional spheres, have...

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  1. Institute for History, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

    Salvador Santino F. Regilme & Henrik S. Hartmann

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Regilme, S.S.F., Hartmann, H.S. (2019). Global Shift. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_53-2

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