BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global AffairsSovereignty\, Order and Con flict presents \;Jacob MundyAssociate Professor\, Colgate UniversityMa king Hegemony in the Middle EastThe region of the Middle East\nholds a cen tral place in narratives of the reluctant postwar American empire.\nPropon ents of American dominance have even bemoaned the US “retreat” from the\nr egion as an assault on the international security arrangements that have\n underwritten global prosperity since 1945. There are threefold problems wi th\nthis understanding\, starting with the notion of hegemony as commonly used by\ninternational relations scholars and the US foreign policy “comme ntariat\,”\nwhich often bear no relation to its Gramscian inspiration. Sec ondly\, the\nnarratives marshalled forth in these accounts\, whether criti cal\, apologetic\, or\nlaudatory of US policy in the Middle East\, are una ble to account for the\ncontradictions and ambiguity of the actual history of America’s entanglement in\nthe region. Finally\, the Middle East itsel f is untheorized\, passing as a\nBourdieuian doxa when in fact the ideatio nal\, material\, and\nspatio-territorial formation of the contemporary Mid dle East can only be understood\nas immanently emergent within the very mu tual constitution of the Middle East\nand the refashioning of America’s gl obal power since the mid-Cold War.\nUltimately\, this intervention seeks t o account for the reasons why the making\nand unmaking of US hegemony has been tied to the making and unmaking of the\nMiddle East.Co-Sponsored by t he Geography DepartmentClick here to registerFor more information\, please contact Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@maxwell.syr.edu or for additional accom modation arrangements\, please contact\, Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.ed u. DTEND:20201008T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T063844Z DTSTART:20201008T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Making Hegemony in the Middle East UID:RFCALITEM639141503249420236 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict presents \;


Jacob Mundy

Associate Professor\, Colgate University


Making Hegemony in the Middle East

The region of the Middle East\nholds a central place in narrat ives of the reluctant postwar American empire.\nProponents of American dom inance have even bemoaned the US “retreat” from the\nregion as an assault on the international security arrangements that have\nunderwritten global prosperity since 1945. There are threefold problems with\nthis understandi ng\, starting with the notion of hegemony as commonly used by\ninternation al relations scholars and the US foreign policy “commentariat\,”\nwhich of ten bear no relation to its Gramscian inspiration. Secondly\, the\nnarrati ves marshalled forth in these accounts\, whether critical\, apologetic\, o r\nlaudatory of US policy in the Middle East\, are unable to account for t he\ncontradictions and ambiguity of the actual history of America’s entang lement in\nthe region. Finally\, the Middle East itself is untheorized\, p assing as a\nBourdieuian doxa when in fact the ideational\, materia l\, and\nspatio-territorial formation of the contemporary Middle East can only be understood\nas immanently emergent within the very mutual constitu tion of the Middle East\nand the refashioning of America’s global power si nce the mid-Cold War.\nUltimately\, this intervention seeks to account for the reasons why the making\nand unmaking of US hegemony has been tied to the making and unmaking of the\nMiddle East.


Co-Sponsored by the Geography Department


Click here to register


For more information\, please contact Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@maxwell.syr.edu or for additional accommodation arrangements\, please contact\, Morgan Bickn ell\, mebickne@syr.edu.

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