evidence: During the Gulf War, The Guardian sounded a typical comment, that: "The Allies embarked, under dominant American leadership, upon the first testing of a New World Order, with the United Nations at its heart".3 Advocates of the "renewalists" thesis on US hegemony, such as Joseph Nye, argued that the US, with its unique combination of military and economic power, its political culture, and experience in realpolitik, was Bound to Lead.4 [...] Wiener, J. (1995). Leadership, the United Nations, and the New World Order. In: Bourantonis, D., Wiener, J. (eds) The United Nations in the New World Order. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23922-1_3