The second important miscalculation concerned the likely global reaction to America s exercise of its hegemonic power.

OXFORD When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic.

However hegemonic Hezbollah may now seem, its power in Lebanon depends heavily on the support of the Assad regime.

The paradox here is that, as its hegemonic power fades, America must rely increasingly on foreign creditors, above all China, to stay afloat.

Yet many believe that America s current preponderance in power resources is hegemonic, and that it will decline, like that of Britain before it.

John Kerry's great virtue has been to resist confusing the demand for security and peace with the hegemonic impulses of America the hyper power.

The NIC foresees a transformed world, in which no country whether the US, China, or any other large country will be a hegemonic power.

Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less restraint.

Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.

But it is well advised to avoid being suspected of hegemonic goals.

They have a point with the Shia in power in Iraq, Iran will seek suitable opportunities to use local Shia populations as proxies to assert its hegemonic claims.

The decision to go to war against Iraq to liberate Kuwait, back in 1991, marked the beginning of America s role as the sole hegemonic military power in the region.

By contrast, Morell described the Iranian regime s merging of...nuclear ambitions with its desire to be a hegemonic power in the Middle East as a mere cause for concern.

Germany, mindful of its recent history, does not want to be cast in the role of a hegemonic power the current situation is not the result of some evil German plot.

BERLIN Germany s reunification, nearly 25 years ago, once again placed at the heart of Europe a large power whose location, economic potential, and, yes, history, raised suspicions of revived hegemonic ambitions.

To be sure, at the time of Jesus, Jews constituted a hegemonic majority in Jerusalem.

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.

Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

The world s power centers are beginning to counterbalance each other, undermining hegemonic ambitions and heralding a creative instability based on genuine multipolarity, with people gaining greater freedom to define their fate in the global arena.

Yet we are now witnessing its disintegration, because the Sykes Picot design always implied a strong external hegemonic power (or two) able and willing to maintain stability by channeling (or suppressing) the region s numerous conflicts.

Yet many believe that America s current preponderance in power resources is hegemonic, and that it will decline, like that of Britain before it. Some Americans react emotionally to that prospect, though it would be ahistorical to believe that the US will have a preponderant share of power resources forever.

This combination of hegemonic aspirations, questioning of the regional status quo, and a nuclear program is extremely dangerous.

Iran is intensively working toward the same end, while continuing to expand its hegemonic position in the region.

While initially viewed as pacific and moderate, it was underpinned by an overarching view of Turkey as the hegemonic regional power as an arbiter of conflicts, but ultimately also as an enforcer of its own views on lesser players.

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The world s acclimation to a global hegemonic structure in which world powers guarantee an international order survived the Cold War.

But that is more difficult when neighboring countries are exploiting the country's heterogeneous makeup to pursue their own hegemonic agendas.

More importantly, it would deny Iran the ability to link popular Islamic and Arab causes with its own hegemonic ambitions.

The Shia majority, once unleashed, viewed US backed democratic elections as a vehicle for imposing hegemonic control over the country.

The economic powerhouse that for decades confidently provided hegemonic stability to the global economy seems at pains to continue doing so.

An alliance with Shia Iran the Kingdom s supreme ideological enemy, and one with regional hegemonic ambitions is out of the question.

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.

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First, Sharon moved the Likud to the center, making it the hegemonic party, while destroying every stereotype about his personality, methods, and worldview.

A Muslim girl who wears a headscarf in a public school is simply wearing a headscarf, not provocatively challenging a hegemonic social order.