Under Pressure: Preference Promotion as a Form of Hegemonic Order

Project Lead: Haoming Xiong

Appendix: Illustration of the Model

Every hegemony has a limit. Although powerful hegemons are always capable of socializing or influencing the preferences of subordinate actors, the effect tends to vary. Many post-communist states in the US-led liberal order, and the Mongols and Tibetans in the ancient Chinese tributary order are typical examples of incomplete, if not failed, socialization or preference shaping. What explains this kind of variation? Why are some subordinate actors more likely to be integrated or socialized into hegemonic orders than others? What factors lead to the asymmetric preference promotion of the hegemon? What is the relationship between interstate disputes/wars and preference promotion? This project aims to explore the answers to these questions.