http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-64452000000200011&...

"Como propunha Kindleberger, os Estados Unidos, hoje, arbitram isoladamente o sistema monetário internacional, promovem ativamente a abertura e desregulação das economias nacionais e o livre comércio, têm incentivado a convergência das políticas macroeconômicas, têm atuado pelo menos em parte como last resort lender em todas as crises financeiras e detêm**** um poder incontrastável no plano industrial, tecnológico, militar, financeiro e cultural" (Fiori, 1999:71).**** E no entanto, o capitalismo tem convivido com uma prolongada instabilidade sistêmica que acompanha o novo sistema cambial. Enquanto que as relações políticas entre os estados carecem de parâmetros ou referências, pendentes apenas do "arbítrio da superpotência ou do seu "diretório político-militar" anglo-saxão.
www.ie.ufrj.br/.../jlfiori/.../Microsoft Word - The Global....
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JOSÉ LUÍS FIORI .... its power on industrial, technological, military, cultural and financial level. But, in ... using demography, ecology and the cultural world.


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"undisputable" is used

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wouldn't it be

indisputable
though?

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Hegemonic Stability Theory and the 20th Century International ...
www.e-ir.info/.../hegemonic-stability-theory-and-the-20th-c...
Jan 8, 2010 – [1] A hegemon is the indisputably strongest state in the international .... These actors in powerful countries, such as the United States in the ...

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Hi
Trouble is there is also the phrase

controle Incontestável

which would be "indisputable", I believe

so the site quoted may be a translation

In any case, the quote in Portuguese may help locate the English equivalent

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see this too, and the use of the term "hegemon"

https://sites.google.com/site/gsfinancialmeltdown/

In this context I think that the seminal works of Charles Kindleberger (The World in Depression 1929-1939 (1974) and The International Economic Order: Essays on Financial Crisis and International Public Goods (1988)) are absolutely essential to making sense of this secular shift. Kindleberger argues that an enlightened hegemon is necessary to allow a reasonably open international trading and financial regime to operate in a world without international government. A necessary precondition for a state to play the role of hegemon is that it disposes of sufficient industrial, military and financial resources to provide the public goods of international lender of last resort and international security, simultaneously reconciling national interests with international stability. This role was played by Great Britain under the Pax Britannica and the gold standard until World War One. The interwar period was one of crisis, with Great Britain being too weak to continue to play this role, and the United States, while possessing the requisite resources, lacked the political will. It was only with the Bretton Woods agreement (1944), the founding of the United Nations, NATO, etc. that the internationalists won out in American foreign policy and established the Pax Americana. With the present financial crisis and the Iraq war we are finally witnessing its demise in a typical pattern of imperial overreach and state bankrupcy.