EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Beyond Hegemony: How the Americas Hold the Key to U.S. Strategic Survival in a Multipolar Era By Horacio J. Téllez O., PhD
The United States is approaching its most consequential strategic crossroads since the end of the Cold War. The unipolar moment has ended. Power is now distributed across multiple centers, and the assumptions that once sustained American primacy no longer hold. In this environment, the most serious threat to U.S. stability is not external competition, but strategic inertia. Beyond Hegemony advances a pragmatic thesis: the twenty-first century will belong to continents that know how to organize themselves. In a fragmented and volatile world, the fate of the United States is inseparable from that of its neighbors. America cannot remain an island of stability surrounded by uncertainty. Its long-term resilience depends on building together with the rest of the hemisphere a Megamérica: an integrated continental anchor capable of transforming global instability into shared strategic strength. “Its long-term resilience depends on building together with the rest of the hemisphere a Megamérica…” Beyond Hegemony is not an ideological project, a revisionist critique, or a challenge to the Western order. It is a structurally conservative strategy in the classical sense: preserving stability by adapting institutions to reality rather than clinging to obsolete 1