Post-Cold War US-based neocons theorized that a single hegemonic power guarantees global stability

Evidence

The expectation of harmony was widely shared. Political and intellectual leaders elaborated similar views. The Berlin wall had come down, communist regimes had collapsed, the United Nations was to assume a new importance, the former Cold War rivals would engage in “partnership” and a “grand bargain,” peacekeeping and peacemaking would be the order of the day. The President of the world’s leading country proclaimed the “new world order”; the president of, arguably, the world’s leading university vetoed appointment of a professor of security studies because the need had disappeared: “Hallelujah! We study war no more because war is no more.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 57 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The SPD-led opposition accused Adenauer of betraying the cause of reunification while the government responded by portraying the opposition as dangerous idealists at best and closet communists at worst. … In this highly charged atmosphere, the expellee groups formulated a basic set of foreign policy principles which remained largely unchanged until the end of the Adenauer era in 1963 and even beyond. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 29 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoconservatives believe only overwhelming American military dominance prevents great power war; Neoconservatives justified permanent American hegemony as a defense against US weakness — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 466; Post-Cold War US foreign policy was bipartisan and aimed at capitalist world integration (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-Cold War leaders widely assumed durable global harmony #complicates (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 57
• Expellee organizations crystallized anti-reunification-compromise principles during Cold War polarization. #qualifies (0.75) — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 29