Inventory adjustments, which boosted growth for a few quarters, will run their course.

Many historical periods have been named after imperial hegemons Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana.

A twentieth century dominated first by a few states, then, during the Cold War, by two states, and finally by American preeminence at the Cold War s end, has given way to a twenty first century dominated by no one.

The Water Hegemon

World wars Great Britain's dominance of the world had been challenged by numerous other powers in the 20th century, most notably Germany.

The Hedge Fund Hegemon

Germany s finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, has said that the crisis will reduce US financial hegemony and create a more multipolar world.

American Hegemony or American Primacy?

Asia s Dammed Water Hegemon

The predominance of the right in the future European Parliament calls for some explanation.

This resulted in the predominance of matter over antimatter in the present universe.

Military bases continue to be symbols and realities of unequal and exploitative relationships between occupiers and occupied, often coupled with weak or corrupt law enforcement mechanisms.

A decade later, with the Cold War s end, the new conventional wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.

One reason is the domination of private firms on the production side.

The predominance of non proliferation concerns at the expense of disarmament must be addressed.

Another impediment is the dominance of large banks.

There is no reason why the same should not be true of its international monetary system.

Many Afghans complain that armed strongmen continue to dominate their local communities.

When US global dominance was unquestioned, as in the 1990 s, it made sense for Israel to secure its long term future by maintaining a stranglehold over the US Congress.

The goal of Islamic terrorists is nothing less than the destruction of the hegemonic Western world, despite most Muslim nations desire to live in peace within the international community and to cooperate in crafting effective development strategies.

Thus, Franklin Roosevelt could simultaneously urge Americans to keep the world from being dominated by Hitler and Mussolini , even as he told them that we are now in the midst of a war against Japan .

Some social scientists are wary of calling attention to the reality of disproportionate Jewish economic success for fear of arousing anti Semitism, or contributing to conspiratorial theories about Jewish economic dominance.

As the world reels today from Donald Trump s stunning upset in the U.S. presidential race, Russians are looking to America with newfound confidence that years of battling the Western liberal media s dominance over global information streams have finally paid off.

At the dawn of the 1990 s, Japan s dominance in export markets worldwide had already been dented somewhat by the rise of its smaller Asian neighbors, including Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, and Singapore.

Some non Pashtun power brokers continue to support Karzai, but many others are now leading the opposition National Front.

Much of America s dominance in world finance comes from the dollar s status as international money.

Thaksin s dominance of Thai politics is unprecedented, and his resilient popularity in the face of a fickle electorate is unparalleled.

The prospect that, through pressure exerted by imperialist powers under the hegemony of the United States, the law of the stronger might prevail in the world while the United Nations would simply and automatically approve arbitrary acts committed by the actual terrorists was alarming indeed.

Their dominance and influence are no longer unquestioned.

Some believe that, with the rise of China, Pax Sinica is next.

Indeed, female dominance has been shown to be linked to increased maternal investment.

It is quite clear that our critics therefore continue to support the dominance of the current power structure.

Finally, some object that bankers dominate the boards of directors of the regional Reserve Banks, making it seem that the foxes are guarding the henhouse.

Then, a month later, a center left majority took control of the National Assembly, too, after ten years of right wing domination.

Gazprom s dominance is reinforced by activities coordinated with the Kremlin to assert its influence in markets like Spain and Italy.

The linguistic dominance of Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, together with pan Arabism, reinforced weak national identities.

The euro itself would be finished after all, its primary task was to break the Bundesbank s dominance in monetary policy.

With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia s economic dominance withered.

But, despite opportunities for self expression, community building and activism remain marginal and do not alter or weaken the state s dominance over society.

But that puts the cart before the horse The predominance of big companies partly reflects anti GM activism, which has made the approval process so long and costly that only rich companies catering to first world farmers can afford to see it through.

Temporarily the east was again dominant as the Byzantine Empire formed from the eastern half of the Roman empire.

Likewise, the Egyptian army s hold on power, beginning in the 1950 s, resulted in a decades long military dictatorship.

But the French have an older word for Putinism étatisme , which holds that the state commands society rather than serves it.

US dominance is clearly on the wane, but a multipolar order implies that several emerging powers hold competing views about how the world should be run, and that they are prepared to act to advance their global agendas.

But can Asia s fear of hegemony and China s fear of military encirclement be reconciled?