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It has been a great ride for the US, and America’s financial supremacy has certainly eased the burden of being a superpower.
During the subsequent two centuries, Persia confronted the Ottoman Empire – the heart of the Sunni caliphate – for regional supremacy.
Inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has interpreted UN demands for its disarmament as a plot by the Bush administration to weaken the party, and as a means of affirming American supremacy in the region.
In the view of many Chinese, the US is an exponent of interventionism and imperialism, and the Trump administration’s trade war is merely the opening shot in a larger economic, military, and ideological contest for supremacy.
The alternative is frightening, because a declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.
That formulation all but pits the central government and regions against one another in a battle for political supremacy.
Aware of the dangers, the People’s Bank of China took steps starting in 2012 to curb the growth of debt; but when the slowdown started to cause real distress in the economy, the Party asserted its supremacy.
The dominant conflict is no longer the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, but the threat of a confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia for sub-regional supremacy, and between Iran and the US for regional hegemony.
Geostrategically, the main game is, as it has been for most of recorded time, geography rather than history, and the biggest game of all for the foreseeable future is the emerging contest for global supremacy between the US and China.
The Bush doctrine is built on two pillars: first, the US will do everything in its power to maintain its unquestioned military supremacy and, second, the US arrogates the right to preemptive action.
I see parallels between the Bush administration's pursuit of American supremacy and a boom-bust process or bubble in the stock market.
Here, the dominant position of the US is the reality, the pursuit of American supremacy the misconception.
That is how I view the Bush administration's pursuit of American supremacy.
The Bush administration came into office with an ideology based on market fundamentalism and military supremacy.
China no doubt views the emergence of renminbi-denominated oil contracts as a means for Chinese companies to buy oil and gas in their own currency, thereby avoiding exposure to foreign currency fluctuations and firing a shot across the bow of US dollar supremacy.
One of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s great mistakes two decades later was to fire Bismarck, fail to renew his “reinsurance treaty” with Russia, and challenge Britain for naval supremacy on the high seas.
The supremacy of European law commands the support of national governments and enforcement by national courts.
Each country would be forced back into a cumbersome system of sovereign states struggling for supremacy and constantly checking one another’s ambitions.
There has been a surge in euro-denominated international bonds, but the liquidity of foreign-exchange markets is no higher for the euro compared to the national currencies it replaced, and the euro remains a long way from challenging the supremacy of the dollar.
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and intervention in Syria have challenged principles of humanitarian interventionism such as the “responsibility to protect” (R2P); and a rising China is confronting the West’s supremacy – in hard- and soft-power terms – in the post-war global order.
The rules of the game forged in the era of US supremacy will have to be revised to accommodate different interests and perceptions.
Trump is a kneejerk authoritarian and a throwback to the old days of white supremacy in America, but many more institutional checks would have to fail before he could bring about the end of American democracy.
Two power blocs, representing opposing concepts of social organization, were struggling for supremacy, but they had to respect each other's vital interests, because each side was capable of destroying the other in an all-out war.
Open society is no longer threatened from the outside by a totalitarian ideology seeking world supremacy.
Indeed, with supremacy in the air, as in Mesopotamia in the 1920s or Japan in 1945, mass killing can be carried out at virtually no cost at all.
It is a role for which decades of US supremacy have scarcely prepared them.
The US and China are set to become immersed in a long-term competition for technological and strategic supremacy.
Representatives of what is euphemistically called the “alt-right” – latter-day white supremacy – were at the center of his campaign.
The need to prove oneself as a lasting relic of the old human supremacy will threaten not just the common good, but also our common humanity.
Dissidents challenge the supremacy of the Communist Party at their peril.
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