hegemony

Given the political hegemony enjoyed by vast corporate interests and institutional leviathans like the military, how is it that they can no longer fend off shakedowns by hack politicians?

Arab leaders are terrified not of Israel but of an imperial Iran, which has spread its influence over at least four Arab nations — Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen — and seeks hegemony over the rest of the region.

For those trying to track global trends for the next decade or two, the real question is not the fate of American global hegemony, but the future of the world order it began building at the peak of its power, not in 1991, but right after World War II. For the past 75 years, Washington’s global dominion has rested on a “delicate duality.”

In other words, there had been a flowering of serious intellectual challenges to white racial hegemony.

Xi, who took office in 2013, has presented China as an alternative style of global leadership to what he sees as Western hegemony, strengthening ties with U.S. adversaries like Russia and North Korea and courting the friendship of other countries in the Asia-Pacific through trade and diplomatic visits.