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International theorists have long argued over the longevity of American hegemony and whether or not the American-centered international order is currently in crisis. What remains largely missing in many of the analyses of the history and present of American hegemony is an examination of how maintaining global hegemony affects or has affected domestic American political and economic institutions. Looking back at the early 1970s, I examine the nexus between the crisis of American global hegemony in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the project of neoliberalization in Chile and how the Chilean socioeconomic "laboratory" set an important precedent for the subsequent adoption of neoliberal reforms in the United States under the Reagan Administration. The reassertion of American hegemony was coextensive with a neoliberal project that was initially experimented with in Chile under the authoritarian rule of Augusto Pinochet.

Dans cet article, nous avançons que la souveraineté biopolitique et la théorie politique de l'état d'exception, souvent dérivées de la pensée de Carl Schmitt, ne constituent pas des indicateurs analytiques satisfaisants si nous voulons comprendre la politique de l'utilité globale des corps, du contrôle sur la vie ou le vivant et la violence des autorités abusives qui semblent aujourd'hui dominer les pratiques en relations internationales. Pour mieux apprécier la singularité du moment présent, nous suggérons qu'une approche théorique inspirée de la pensée politique de Hannah Arendt et correspondant aux politiques de violence absolue et totalitaire ainsi qu'à la terreur est nécessaire. En revisitant la pensée d'Arendt sur la violence et la politique agonale, nous reconceptualisons les pratiques souveraines en tant que « souveraineté agonale ».

In this article, we argue that biopolitical sovereignty and the political theory about the state of exception, often derived from the thought of Carl Schmitt, are not sufficient analytical indicators if we seek to understand the politics of global utility of bodies, control over life or the living, and abusive authority and violence that appear to dominate International Relations practices today. To better capture the singularity of the international present, we suggest that an Arendtian political theoretical approach, more carefully tuned to the politics and policies of absolute or totalitarian violence and terror, is necessary. By revisiting Arendt's thought about violence and political agony, we reconceptualize sovereign practices as matters of 'agonal sovereignty'. Adapted from the source document.