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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26774</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-2-243-251</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Prelude to America’s Downfall: The Stagflation of the 1970s</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Начало падения Америки: стагфляция 1970-х гг.</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3128-6411</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Fouskas</surname><given-names>Vassilis K.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Фускас</surname><given-names>Василис К.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in European Politics and Economics, Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of States, Markets &amp; People (STAMP), School of Business &amp; Law</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор европейских политических и экономических наук, профессор международных отношений Центра изучения государств, рынков и населения (STAMP), Школа бизнеса и права</p></bio><email>v.fouskas@uel.ac.uk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of East London</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Восточного Лондона</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-06-22" publication-format="electronic"><day>22</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Intensifying U.S. — Сhina Strategic Rivalry and the Transformation of the Global Order</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Нарастающее стратегическое соперничество между США и КНР  и трансформация глобального миропорядка</issue-title><fpage>243</fpage><lpage>251</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-06-22"><day>22</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Fouskas V.K.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Фускас В.К.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Fouskas V.K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Фускас В.К.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/26774">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/26774</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Since the end of the Bretton Woods system and the stagflation of the 1970s, the transatlantic core, under the leadership of the United States of America, has been trying to expand its model of free market capitalism embracing every part of the globe, while addressing its domestic overaccumulation crisis. This article follows a historical methodological perspective and draws from the concept of Uneven and Combined Development (UCD), which helps us consider the structural reasons behind the long and protracted decline of the American economic power. In this respect, according to the UCD concept, there is no global power that can enjoy the privilege for being at the top of the global capitalist system forever in a world which develops unevenly and in a combined way. Power shifts across the world and new powers come to challenge the current hegemonic power and its alliance systems. The novelty of the article is that it locates this decline in the 1970s and considers it as being consubstantial with the state economic policy of neo-liberalism and financialisation (supply-side economics). However the financialised capitalism of the transatlantic assemblage lack industrial base producing, reproducing and recycling real commodity values. Further, the article shows that this attempt to remain at the top of the global capitalist system forever has not been successful, not least because the regime which the recovery of the core had rested upon, that of neo-liberal financialisation represents a major vulnerability of the transatlantic assemblage eroding the primacy of the United States of America in it.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">С момента краха Бреттон-Вудской системы и стагфляции 1970-х гг. трансатлантическое ядро под руководством Соединенных Штатов Америки пыталось расширить свою модель капитализма свободного рынка, охватив все части земного шара, и в то же время урегулировать внутренний кризис чрезмерного накопления. Автор следует исторической методологической перспективе и опирается на концепцию неравномерного и комбинированного развития (НКР), которая помогает рассмотреть структурные причины длительного и продолжительного упадка американской экономической мощи. Вместе с тем, согласно концепции НКР, в мире, развивающемся неравномерно и комбинированно, не существует мировой державы, которая единолично занимает лидирующие позиции в глобальной капиталистической системе. Смена власти по всему миру и новые страны бросают вызов современному гегемонистскому государству и системе его союзников. Новизна исследования заключается в том, что она относит спад американской экономической мощи к 1970-м гг. и рассматривает его в контексте государственной экономической политики неолиберализма и финансиализации (экономика предложения). При этом основной проблемой финансового капитализма трансатлантического объединения является отсутствие промышленной базы для производства, воспроизводства и переработки сырьевых товаров. Отмечается, что попытка этих стран навсегда остаться на вершине глобальной капиталистической системы не увенчалась успехом, в особенности из-за режима, на котором базировалось восстановление ядра - неолиберальной финансиализации. Сделан вывод, что неолиберальная финансиализация угрожает трансатлантическому объединению, подрывая в нем первенство Соединенных Штатов Америки.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>neo-liberal financialisation</kwd><kwd>financial statecraft</kwd><kwd>China</kwd><kwd>USA</kwd><kwd>Great Recession</kwd><kwd>stagflation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>неолиберальная финансиализация</kwd><kwd>управление государством посредством финансов</kwd><kwd>Китай</kwd><kwd>США</kwd><kwd>Великая рецессия</kwd><kwd>стагфляция</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Albo, G., Gindin, S., &amp; Panitch, L. (2010). In and out of crisis. Oakland: PM Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Alele, O. (2020). Financialisation and the rise of consumer debt in the UK [thesis]. 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