For the first time, Ukrainians have thrown their little brother complex toward the Russians overboard.

Another significant factor is regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran over hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

Fourth, Iranians acknowledge that any regional hegemony bought with nuclear weapons is likely to be short lived.

Instead, it has helped Iran to gain a regional ascendancy that the country could never have achieved on its own.

This is why Syria s civil war is now a geopolitical battle for regional domination, with multiple fractures along sectarian lines.

Rather, the war has become a struggle for regional dominance between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey on the other.

Obvious choice India.What USA had completely overlooked in this game of regional hegemony is when you let the genie out of the bottle, it will refuse to go back in the bottle.

An aspect of this is that the largely Sunni Muslim led states face a largely Shia Muslim led competitor for regional hegemony.

Nor has he been able to rein in Iran s relentless drive for regional hegemony, or convince it to abandon its quest for nuclear arms.

We have fought wars to preserve colonial domination and wars to end it.

Germany s Hegemony Trap

The dominant conflict is no longer the Israeli Palestinian struggle, but the threat of a confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia for sub regional supremacy, and between Iran and the US for regional hegemony.

President Xi Jinping s promise of national greatness embodied in the catchphrase China dream is tied as much to achieving regional hegemony as to internal progress.

America s Self Defeating Hegemony

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

The threats concentrated in the Middle East are diverse regional conflicts, totalitarian religious ideologies, terrorism, nuclear armament programs, blockades to modernization, unstable regimes and hegemonic ambitions.

Venezuela's international policy was based on a new concept of economic, financial and trade diplomacy and the introduction of regional bloc policies which defended sovereignty against hegemonistic aspirations.

Foreign dominance led to internal strife.

Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama will take a softer stance than the current American administration on the question of Iran s regional hegemony and its nuclear program.

Unfortunately, key groups in all three countries claim that the contest for regional mastery now underway means that talk about cooperation is not only naïve, but obsolete.

Thankfully nobody wanted the dominated option.

This is fiscal dominance in its purest form.

And nowhere is this mythology more dominant than in Trinidad and Tobago.

Moreover, the Syrian civil war has become a proxy in an openly declared battle for regional hegemony between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and the US on the other.

The political epicenter of this troubled region has shifted from the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians toward the Persian Gulf and the struggle for regional mastery between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and now Egypt on the other.

Peaceful resolution of these conflicts requires giving China a role in the decision making process, which implies that the US and China alike relinquish any desire for regional primacy.

It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

The test of China s intentions is whether its growing economic and, yes, military capacities will be used to seek to establish Asian hegemony by working to exclude America from the region and preventing regional partnerships from flourishing.

Obasanjo s new oil policy threatens this dominance.

History is replete with examples of former empires that exercised hegemony and practised colonialism.

Finally, the crisis has shattered the ideological dominance of the West.

England was ready to challenge Dutch trade dominance.

Theories of cultural hegemony or cultural assimilation via cultural imperialism.

Finally, America s global hegemony has proven to be a curse as well as a blessing.

The global hegemon has never been loved by its neighbors.

I do not think that a struggle for hegemony is inevitable, or that it would be desirable.

Europe also was supposedly vying for global economic dominance.

Rejecting the dominant interventionist paradigm and tendencies as a real threat to the world community

Having seen the peoples of Central Europe free themselves from Soviet domination just two years before, the constituent nations of the USSR were beginning to seek the same freedom for themselves.

This is also true, more generally, of German dominance of the EU.

Being a hegemon is a thankless task.

As an athlete, I want everyone to know that strength does not mean dominance and aggression.

These ethnic groups have been seen to contest the political, economic, and social dominance of Moors.

In 1990, the new constitution institutionalised ethnic Fijian domination of the political system.

The castle was built in the late 13th century to secure Swedish power in central Finland.