This article analyzes the position of the United States in the post-Cold War world, considering as a reference the controversies on the extension and limits of its hegemonic posture, which acquires greater relevance after the formulation of the "Bush Doctrine", systematized in the document "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America". Our approach will lay emphasis on the following aspects: establishment of a parallel between the transition of the XIX-XX and XX-XXI centuries, from studies that point out the characteristics of imperialism at different times; an analysis of the current foreign policy of the United States, focusing on the debate between unilateralism and multilateralism, emphasizing the reactions caused by the intervention in Iraq; a critical argument of the approaches that visualize in the security agenda of the Bush administration an indicator of a loss of hegemony, which would impose open domination over the search of consensus.
Bush Doctrine; Unilateralism; Multilateralism; Hegemony
