They may also be both in French and in another language provided that French is markedly predominant.

Iran, with Russia s support, would be ascendant and the West apparently impotent.

It must learn to act as a benign hegemon.

The UN is comprised of sovereign states, but it is not sovereign itself and cannot act as if it were.

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

The transition of power from one dominant state to another is a familiar historical pattern, but power diffusion is a more novel process.

For instance, on a trajectory from the Earth to Mars, one would begin by considering only the Earth's gravity until the trajectory reaches a distance where the Earth's gravity no longer dominates that of the Sun.

They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power, forgetting that the United States was the world s largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.

As the strongest creditor country, Germany has emerged as the hegemon.

For one thing, the United States was never a hegemon in Asia.

Even in the days of the Shah, the Kingdom feared that a strong Iran might become the dominant regional power.

The same result could be achieved, with less cost to Germany, if Germany chose to behave as a benevolent hegemon.

Instead, its foreign policy was dominated by economic interests.

Iraq was also aiming to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state.

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Recent observations of the bright optical counterpart of GRB 080319B, whose light curve was correlated with the gamma ray light curve, has suggested that inverse Compton may be the dominant process in some events.

Microsoft will no longer dominate control over the diffusion of knowledge in the world.

Critics of America s record as a global hegemony make a strong case against a uni polar world.

It arose at the University of Ibadan in the 1950s and remained dominant until the 1970s.

The Roman provinces, having received much of the benefit of Roman civilization, became Romanized to a large degree.

This presented Iran with a golden opportunity to project itself as a regional hegemon, and Iran s leaders are unlikely to let this opportunity slip away.

Never since the US became the world s predominant power during World War II has there been a similar decline in its international influence.

The war enabled Iran to assert itself as the dominant power in the Gulf and the wider region, and its nuclear program serves precisely these ambitions.

Insofar as this is true, the United States won t be replaced as the dominant power unless and until it abdicates that role.

History teaches that global economic order is difficult to establish and maintain in the absence of a dominant economic power.

But non organized crowds eventually eclipsed structured groups, becoming a dominant force in Lebanese politics.

Indeed, countries that had previously been described as under developed or Third World were becoming incipient global hegemons.

South Africa seeks a wider and more influential role reinforced by its obvious standing as a regional hegemon.

The war shifted the balance of power in Eastern Europe and marked the rise of the Polish Lithuanian union as the dominant power in the region.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

The United States enemies have been strengthened, and Iran despite being branded as a member of the so called axis of evil has been catapulted into regional hegemony.

More than ever before in recent decades, fear is becoming the dominant force in European politics.

It remains dominant today, as all efforts to establish an alternative, even totalitarianism, failed.

President Barack Obama has raised hopes for a new strategy, but so far the forces of continuity in US policy are dominating the forces of change.

Indeed, Henry Kissinger once told me that he believes that Chinese traditional thought has a greater chance than any foreign ideology (say, Marxism or liberalism) of becoming the dominant intellectual force behind Chinese foreign policymaking.

From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

The division between debtor and creditor countries will become permanent, with Germany dominating and the periphery becoming a depressed hinterland.

Moreover, NATO benefits from the military might of a dominant nation, while the EU must depend on the shared voluntary efforts of its members.

The small planets dominated, and there was a certain harmony to that, which actually Copernicus was very happy to note, and Kepler was one of the big proponents of.

For the past 50 years, these affluent countries have dominated the global economy, producing four fifths of its economic output.

In the Arab world, there is currently no dominant power able to project stability beyond its own national borders.

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And as I said, the theory must be biologically accurate, it must be testable, and you must be able to build it.

NEW DELHI America s strategy in Asia for more than a century has sought a stable balance of power to prevent the rise of any hegemon.