The global hegemon has never been loved by its neighbors.

Europe also was supposedly vying for global economic dominance.

The age of colonialism is finished, and we are now moving beyond the age of US global dominance.

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

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

Germany s Hegemony Trap

As a small group of countries increasingly accounts for the world s remaining oil reserves, their market dominance may threaten the pace of investment.

America s Self Defeating Hegemony

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

Foreign dominance led to internal strife.

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.

It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

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.

This trend accelerated as the current Bush administration attempted to construct unilateral global hegemony out of the War on Terror, which provoked growing disquiet in Old Europe.

This was particularly true in the twentieth century, when, in the wake of two world wars, the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the European world powers on the global stage. The Cold War and the period of US global dominance after 1989 1990 followed this pattern as well.

Obasanjo s new oil policy threatens this dominance.

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

In fact, a backlash against Western hegemony in global governance has been brewing for years, with developing countries increasingly turning away from the IMF in favor of creating alternative, regional sources of funding.

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.

Today s reality, however, is that great powers can no longer divide and conquer other regions, even if they try. The age of colonialism is finished, and we are now moving beyond the age of US global dominance.

In the nineteenth century, the stable hegemon was the United Kingdom, with the British Empire imposing the global public goods of free trade, free capital mobility, the gold standard, and the British pound as the major global reserve currency.

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

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

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

But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day. Having succeeded in integrating the West through prosperity and security following WWII, America must begin to craft a new global leadership structure.

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.

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON For more than a century, the United States has been the dominant global force for innovation. But China and other Asian countries are now testing that dominance, and the West should welcome the challenge.

The main threat to America's dominant position comes not from outside, but from within.

The apparent hegemony of neo social democrats began to crumble after only a few years.

In March 1998, The Rock overthrew Faarooq as leader of The Nation of Domination, sparking a feud.

Views differ about the preconditions for dominant positions or abuse thereof.

American hegemony over the global economy is perhaps in its final decades.

This is a far nobler calling than simply expanding American hegemony.

It is right and refreshing that Obama has made clear that America s aspiration is to lead, not dominate.

Christian fundamentalism in the United States has come to dominate large segments of the Republican Party.