The second important miscalculation concerned the likely global reaction to America s exercise of its hegemonic power.

However hegemonic Hezbollah may now seem, its power in Lebanon depends heavily on the support of the Assad regime.

The paradox here is that, as its hegemonic power fades, America must rely increasingly on foreign creditors, above all China, to stay afloat.

The NIC foresees a transformed world, in which no country whether the US, China, or any other large country will be a hegemonic power.

Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less restraint.

Great Britain had been the hegemonic power of the nineteenth century, but its creditor status had been severely eroded by the cost of fighting World War I.

They have a point with the Shia in power in Iraq, Iran will seek suitable opportunities to use local Shia populations as proxies to assert its hegemonic claims.

By contrast, Morell described the Iranian regime s merging of...nuclear ambitions with its desire to be a hegemonic power in the Middle East as a mere cause for concern.

The decision to go to war against Iraq to liberate Kuwait, back in 1991, marked the beginning of America s role as the sole hegemonic military power in the region.

This approach should favor China s global strategy, which is premised upon Xi s desire to build a new type of major power relationship between China and the US (the Chinese government prefers major power to great power, probably in order to highlight its stated renunciation of hegemonic ambition).

The aftermath of the 1907 crash drove the hegemonic power of the time Great Britain to reflect on how it could use its financial clout to enhance its overall strategic capacity.

Germany, mindful of its recent history, does not want to be cast in the role of a hegemonic power the current situation is not the result of some evil German plot.

However, at the heart of the issue lies the Iranian regime s aspiration to become a hegemonic Islamic and regional power and thereby position itself at eye level with the world s most powerful nations.

The world s power centers are beginning to counterbalance each other, undermining hegemonic ambitions and heralding a creative instability based on genuine multipolarity, with people gaining greater freedom to define their fate in the global arena.

While initially viewed as pacific and moderate, it was underpinned by an overarching view of Turkey as the hegemonic regional power as an arbiter of conflicts, but ultimately also as an enforcer of its own views on lesser players.

The Gaullist dream of creating an independent power center never succeeded, but the role of awkward partner has given a distinctive flavor to French diplomacy, and it may be equally viable for a shrunken, proud, but no longer hegemonic Russia.

No matter how often Chinese leaders repudiate any hegemonic ambition, wariness about China s true intentions will remain.

This combination of hegemonic aspirations, questioning of the regional status quo, and a nuclear program is extremely dangerous.

Iran is intensively working toward the same end, while continuing to expand its hegemonic position in the region.

More importantly, it would deny Iran the ability to link popular Islamic and Arab causes with its own hegemonic ambitions.

The world s acclimation to a global hegemonic structure in which world powers guarantee an international order survived the Cold War.

That notion is of a hegemonic Iran that is attempting to dominate the region through an array of Shiite proxies.

But that is more difficult when neighboring countries are exploiting the country's heterogeneous makeup to pursue their own hegemonic agendas.

The economic powerhouse that for decades confidently provided hegemonic stability to the global economy seems at pains to continue doing so.

First, Sharon moved the Likud to the center, making it the hegemonic party, while destroying every stereotype about his personality, methods, and worldview.

A Muslim girl who wears a headscarf in a public school is simply wearing a headscarf, not provocatively challenging a hegemonic social order.

In a famous analysis of the Great Depression, the economic historian Charles Kindleberger argued that it arose from a failure of world leadership. Great Britain had been the hegemonic power of the nineteenth century, but its creditor status had been severely eroded by the cost of fighting World War I.

So it is little wonder that the Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, and the Gulf states are seeking to resist Iran s hegemonic ambitions in the region.

Iran s hegemonic ambitions have been unleashed, and the country has been helped to a strategic position that it could never have reached on its own.

Because such reforms are of a complex nature, they should be undertaken with a sense of history and with political will, and without hegemonic intentions.

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.

The causes of discrimination against women that we are witnessing nowadays cannot be viewed as a new phase of the same hegemonic culture of centuries ago.

A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America s hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.

This influence does not imply a hegemonic relationship, but rather points to an alternative path for reform and economic development that other primarily Muslim countries might take.

The United States will have to stop defining its transatlantic interests in terms of its hegemonic mindset, and Europe will have to take fuller charge of its own region.

It is equally unlikely for the foreseeable future that any one club of countries, such as the G 7 or G 8, will again assume a quasi hegemonic position.

More importantly, PTAs are used by hegemonic powers to foist on weaker trading partners demands unrelated to trade but desired by domestic lobbies, at times in a markedly asymmetric way.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

That just might be an adequate rebuff to the rise of PTAs whose main objective is to serve hegemonic interests alone perhaps even sufficient to get the multilateral approach back on track.

In fact, by camouflaging offense as defense, China casts the burden of starting a war on an opponent, while it seeks to lay the foundation brick by brick of a hegemonic Middle Kingdom.

It is clear that such education has been largely successful, since over the years the dominant or hegemonic society succeeded in assimilating large segments of the indigenous population through public or missionary schools.

Those who revile Chavez often do so in the name of the Washington Consensus, that mix of capitalism and democracy that was almost hegemonic across the continent in the 1980's and 1990's.

That the Latin American right can sleep at night despite this leftward tide is not merely the result of communism s disappearance, nor does it mean that the US has given up its hegemonic intentions.

From People Power to Putin Power

The fusion of Iran s nuclear program (and Iran s hegemonic ambitions) with the situation in Iraq and with Hezbollah in Lebanon will lead to a New Middle East which, in all likelihood, will provoke a major confrontation.