The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

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

It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

Germany s Hegemony Trap

England was ready to challenge Dutch trade dominance.

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

America s Self Defeating Hegemony

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.

Europe also was supposedly vying for global economic dominance.

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.

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

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.

Obasanjo s new oil policy threatens this dominance.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This conquest gave the Portuguese full control of the trade between India and Europe passing through the Persian Gulf.

Will they fight to dominate the century, or to make it more peaceful and prosperous?

The global hegemon has never been loved by its neighbors.

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

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

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

Another significant factor is regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran over hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

The US should recognize that Asian countries are seeking not to dominate the West, but to emulate it.

Sometimes gradually, sometimes by fits and starts, control of Zanzibar came into the hands of the British Empire.

Every negotiated solution with the Taliban means re establishing Pakistan s dominance in Afghanistan, at least partially.

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.

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