Abstract
The impending power transition in the global hierarchy has already triggered post-hegemonic phase in the international system. The ‘Rise of China’ along with alternate power centers have considerably constrained US clout to obtain ‘desired outcomes’ and few significant political developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century are already tilting the debate in favour of drift towards post- hegemony. A review of the academic debates between ‘primacists’ and ‘declinists’ school has been done within the article to establish that uncertainty and ambiguity prevailing in the contemporary global hierarchy not only provides substance to the scholarly debate on post-hegemony, but speaks of a world away from US dominated and controlled patterns of interaction and influence.