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

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

Europe is losing its technological edge, whether in telecoms, technology, or the Internet, with its companies being displaced by those from emerging markets, while the US remains dominant.

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

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

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

It must learn to act as a benign hegemon.

Instead, its foreign policy was dominated by economic interests.

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

Ants became dominant after adaptive radiation at the beginning of the Paleogene period.

Yet, despite the fact that America spends more on defense than the next ten powers combined, it has never been a regional hegemon because it actually relies on the cooperation of other states to remain predominant.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Such a war will always be without rules, always a total war.

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

But risks remain.

But that information remains hidden.

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.

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.

The US, as hegemon in the Middle East for many years, could not solve any of the region s major problems single handedly.

But growth prospects remain grim.

But practical challenges remain.

Nonetheless, three major problems remain.

But outside help is essential.

But questions remain.

But differences will remain.

Major challenges remain.

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