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Hegemonic in sentence

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The crass manner in which the Irish Catholics are shown as hegemonic, the Protestants as peaceful and downtrodden, is as poor a representation of history as early US westerns that depict the struggle between cowboys and American Indians.
The world’s acclimation to a global hegemonic structure – in which world powers guarantee an international order – survived the Cold War.
Aimed at helping the US to maintain its strategic primacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the policy has been quietly welcomed by most regional actors, as it dovetails with their desire to check China’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.
The result was the empire’s dismantling, with the victorious powers, Britain and France, grabbing hegemonic control over its remnants.
Though the deal does slow Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, it does not restrain – or even address – the regime’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, for which it has already spent billions of dollars and suffered crippling sanctions.
Yet other regional powers have done little to develop a coordinated strategy to thwart China’s hegemonic plans.
From Vietnam’s perspective, Japan is perhaps the most important strategic partner with which to counterbalance China’s maritime expansionism and constrain its hegemonic ambitions.
Now, however, with the era of multilateral trade rounds and system-wide rules behind us, the PTAs are the only game in town, and the templates established by the hegemonic powers in unequal trade treaties with economically weaker countries will increasingly carry the day.
That just might be an adequate rebuff to the rise of PTAs whose main objective is to serve hegemonic interests alone – perhaps even sufficient to get the multilateral approach back on track.
However, at the heart of the issue lies the Iranian regime’s aspiration to become a hegemonic Islamic and regional power and thereby position itself at eye level with the world’s most powerful nations.
This combination of hegemonic aspirations, questioning of the regional status quo, and a nuclear program is extremely dangerous.
First, the European offer to open up technology and trade, including the peaceful use of nuclear technology, was disproportionate to Iran’s fundamental fear of regime change on the one hand, and its regional hegemonic aspirations and quest for global prestige on the other.
But, by this definition, nineteenth-century Britain – which at the height of its power in 1870 ranked third (behind the US and Russia) in GDP and third (behind Russia and France) in military expenditures – could not be considered hegemonic, despite its naval dominance.
No matter how often Chinese leaders repudiate any hegemonic ambition, wariness about China’s true intentions will remain.
Few in East Asia want to live in the shadow of a hegemonic China.
Great Britain had been the hegemonic power of the nineteenth century, but its creditor status had been severely eroded by the cost of fighting World War I.
In what became northern Iraq, the Kurds, like the country’s Assyrian Christians, were for decades denied recognition of their distinct language and culture by hegemonic Arab rulers in Baghdad.
More importantly, it would deny Iran the ability to link popular Islamic and Arab causes with its own hegemonic ambitions.
Moderate Arab governments understand full well the issue at stake in this war: it is about regional hegemony in the case of Syria with Lebanon and Palestine and, on a wider level, Iran’s hegemonic claim to the entire Middle East.
It has proven that there is no way back to the status quo in Lebanon, and it revealed Iran’s hegemonic aspirations to the entire world.
So it is little wonder that the Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, and the Gulf states are seeking to resist Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.
European leaders should have been much more energetic at the United Nations in opposing America’s hegemonic policy in the Middle East, with its catastrophic effects, including mass displacement and refugee movements.
American Power after Bin LadenOXFORD – When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic.
Yet many believe that America’s current preponderance in power resources is hegemonic, and that it will decline, like that of Britain before it.
Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.
Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might tempt aggression.
In fact, by camouflaging offense as defense, China casts the burden of starting a war on an opponent, while it seeks to lay the foundation – brick by brick – of a hegemonic Middle Kingdom.
The current “war on terror” will increasingly be replaced by this hegemonic conflict.
Given these unresolved questions and the escalation of the hegemonic conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the next chapter in the region’s history promises to be anything but peaceful.
In the event, the EU would have to lead on finding a negotiated solution that addresses both the hegemonic intentions of regional players and the issue of nuclear- and conventional-arms control.
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