Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.
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