Abstract:
We address the debate on the possible decline of the U.S. empire, which developed above all during the 1990s, by looking at the analyses of a series of critical and pro-United States authors, during a conjuncture in which the economy of that country was experiencing short cycles of growth and increasingly long crises. The current crisis of capitalism goes beyond its financial aspects and the spending that is occurring in order to overcome it is astronomical and is occurring in a very short span of time. In this context, the symbiosis between U.S. hegemony and transnational capitalism demonstrates that the crisis of one is inseparable from the crisis of the other.

Keywords: Hegemony. Imperialism. Transnationalism.