Foreign policy elites across camps share the aim of US hegemony

Evidence

It should therefore come as no surprise that these individuals talk to one another and vie for influence within the broader political arena. When they disagree it is typically around strategy or rhetoric; they all share the overall aim of maintaining US hegemony. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 461

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Milgrom’s institutionalist point that competing groups still share systemic goals; connects to the reader’s interest in how elite consensus forms despite visible disagreement. — connects to: Political Islam framing is debated among US foreign policy elites of both parties; Absorbing enemy elites decapitates opposition; hegemony precedes state power — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 430; US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Realist and neocon foreign policy camps differ in tactics not imperial goals #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 463
• The Clinton era reframed US hegemony as humanitarian democracy promotion #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 459
• Post-Cold War US foreign policy was bipartisan and aimed at capitalist world integration #corroborates (0.85)
• Political Islam framing is debated among US foreign policy elites of both parties #expands (0.80)
• US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. #exemplifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28
• Trump’s foreign policy swapped liberal for illiberal hegemony while keeping empire #qualifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 514
• Cold War US hegemony in the Middle East collided with nationalist independence movements #exemplifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 638
• Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality #complicates (0.80)
• Absorbing enemy elites decapitates opposition; hegemony precedes state power #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 430
• US elites pathological labeled Arab nationalists resisting Western interests #exemplifies (0.75)
• Hegemony is not the same thing as ideological domination #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 755
• Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them #complicates (0.70)