IMPÉRIO · Guerra Fria, Complexo Militar-Industrial e o Fim da Pax Americana | Conceição Tavares

American Hegemony is a unique phenomenon in history: a society founded as a "transnational market" from the outset, without a state in the European sense, which needed war (and not just the New Deal) to become a superpower. In this twelfth lesson, Professor Maria da Conceição Tavares conducts a masterful geopolitical analysis, comparing the US power model with that of Germany and Japan. With a prophetic vision of the end of the Cold War, Tavares argues that the "Pax Americana" depended on the existence of an enemy (the USSR). Without it, the USA—a society fragmented into lobbies, corporations, and ghettos, lacking a "millennial" national identity like Japan's—plunges into a crisis of meaning and internal disorder. The lecture concludes with a moving assessment of the "Brave Twentieth Century," the century of the masses and decolonization. Lesson Highlights: New Deal vs. War: The ultimate proof that Roosevelt's policies only held things together; it was the war economy that nationalized production and pulled the country out of the depression. The Power Triad: A brutal comparative analysis. USA (Military/Ideological Power), Germany (Commercial/Political Power), and Japan (Financial/Technological Power). Society of Engineers vs. Historical Society: Why Japan and Germany manage to maintain social cohesion and long-term planning, while the US experiences short-term anarchy. The Crisis of Intellectuals: The end of great global thinkers (such as Keynes and Marx) and the rise of "state bureaucrats" and specialists in fragmented subjects. The "Internal Third World": How immigration and inequality brought underdevelopment within American borders (e.g., Los Angeles). An essential video for understanding why the "New World Order" promised in the 90s has become the global chaos we live in today. 00:00 The American Engine: Mass Consumption, Services, and High Wages 13:50 The Historical Verdict: The New Deal didn't save the USA, the War did. 20:00 Pax Americana: An Order Dependent on the Cold War and the Enemy 26:00 The "Third World" within the USA: Citizenship via Credit Card 38:00 The Impossible Coordination: The End of National Policies (G3, G5, G7) 45:00 The Death of Political Economy: The End of Global Intellectuals 01:13:00 The Power Triad: Asymmetries between the USA (Weapons), Germany (Trade), and Japan (Finance) 01:26:00 The Japanese Model: The Factory as a Laboratory and Social Cohesion 01:34:00 Transnational Society (USA) vs. Historical Society (Europe/Asia) 01:54:00 Conclusion: The "Brave New Century" of the Masses and the Current Disorder #hegemoniaamericana #mariadaconceicaotavares #geopolitica #seculoxx #historiaeconomica Date: August 11, 1992 - Part 2