It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

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

We are entering a post American world the world beyond America s brief moment of global domination.

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

The US may be the only superpower, but preponderance is not empire.

Over the past few centuries, there have been three systems of international order economic and military domination a balance of power and shared sovereignty.

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

The West s long period of global dominance is ending, encouraged and accelerated by its own mistakes and irresponsible behavior.

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.

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.

Germany s Hegemony Trap

England was ready to challenge Dutch trade dominance.

SINGAPORE Barack Obama s election comes at a moment when a new bit of conventional wisdom is congealing. It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

These are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global eminence after centuries of Western domination, the Oriental answer to generations of Occidental economic success.

The matter became all the more urgent as new military doctrines were put forward involving the development and deployment of new and costly weapons of destruction intended to promote the hegemonic domination of the most powerful over the rest of the inhabitants of the planet.

The West has dominated the world ever since the industrial revolution. Today that dominance seems threatened by the East Asian heirs to Confucianism, the ideology par excellence of state cohesion.

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

America s Self Defeating Hegemony

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.

The rampancy of terrorism all over the world had resulted from an inhumane foreign policy which oppressed other nations, violated State sovereignty and created social inequality.

Foreign dominance led to internal strife.

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

But, at least as far as Asia is concerned, arguments about the end of American hegemony ring hollow.

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.

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

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

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

Throughout this period, they competed with the Husaynis, for dominance of the Palestinian Arab political scene.

Capitalism s third mutation is the extreme financialization of economies and societies.

Writing on his Facebook page, Schooling reminded the public that strength does not mean dominance and aggression.

Large countries like the US, Russia, Britain, France, and China have greater capacity than other states and non state actors to control the sea, air, or space, but it makes little sense to speak of dominance in cyberspace.

Anxiety over unconventional monetary policies and currency wars must not continue to dominate global policy discussions, especially given last month s pledge by G 20 leaders not to engage in competitive currency devaluations.

Obasanjo s new oil policy threatens this dominance.

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

Still under foreign domination, and without sovereignty, India and China are down in the corner.

But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.

Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.

No other country has ever managed to assume such unchallenged riparian preeminence on a continent by controlling the headwaters of multiple international rivers and manipulating their cross border flows.

Determined to vigorously oppose foreign domination, threat, aggression, alien occupation, coercion, intimidation and pressure against the Member States

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

Theories of cultural hegemony or cultural assimilation via cultural imperialism.