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.

Germany s Hegemony Trap

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

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.

America s Self Defeating Hegemony

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

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.

Foreign dominance led to internal strife.

World domination. That same old dream.

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.

Thankfully, nobody wanted the dominant option.

Catholic intellectual hegemony across Europe.

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.

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.

It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

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.

Obasanjo s new oil policy threatens this dominance.

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

The FCA does not apply to joint dominance cases.

So, we get in dog training this notion of dominances, or of the alpha dog.

Still under foreign domination, and without sovereignty,

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.

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.

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.

This is a show of hegemonism and power politics pure and simple.

The males have dominance displays that they use when they're chasing each other's females.

Regional and subregional frameworks

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.

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.