America's Sticky Power: Thinking Differently About U.S. Hegemony

U.S. military force and cultural appeal have kept the United States at the top of the global order. But the hegemon cannot live on guns and Hollywood alone. U.S. economic policies and institutions act as "sticky power," attracting other countries to the U.S. system and then trapping them in it. Sticky power can help stabilize Iraq, bring rule of law to Russia, and prevent armed conflict between the United States and China.

Participants

• Walter Russell Mead
  Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations


• Michael Lind
  Whitehead Senior Fellow, New America Foundation and Author of What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President