Piotr Dutkiewicz is Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Center for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Tom Casier is Jean Monnet Chair and Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS), Belgium.

Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, Netherlands and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Part 1: Hegemony as Conceptual Map 1. Crises of World Hegemony and the Speeding up of Social History 2. A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis and its Application to the Debate on American Hegemony 3. Unravelling Power and Hegemony 4. Globalization and the Decline of Universalism 5. Rethinking Hegemony as Complexity Part 2: Practices of Hegemony 6. Hybrid War and Hegemonic Power 7. Global Hegemony from a Longue Durée Perspective 8. Western Liberalism and Russian Left Conservatism in Search of International Hegemony 9. Twilight of Hegemony 10. Shifting Hegemonies in Global Migration Politics and the Rise of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Part 3: Hegemony in Action 11. The US-China Trade War and Hegemonic Competition 12. Competition in Convergence 13. India in the "Asian Century" 14. On the Power of Improvisation