Many critics of US power, for their part, attribute George W. Bush's unilateralism to the self-centered, provincial worldview of the American right. This explanation confuses cause and effect. Bush's unilateralist ideology is a product of a unique structural conjuncture: the consolidation of the civilian-military "defense establishment" that won the Cold War as the dominant faction of the US elite and the disappearance of an effective countervailing force to US power in the global state system.
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