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“Hegemon” is a loaded word, even if the Greek root simply means leader. In world politics the term refers to a superpower that dominates the international system as a whole, for good or ill.

A true regional hegemon doesn’t have to rely on others to dominate its neighborhood, but Israel does. U.S. support has been ironclad for decades, due to the influence of a powerful domestic ...

Katherine C. Epstein discusses the rise of the military-industrial complex, tracing its origins back to naval technology ...

In this way, the concept of the cheap hegemon may become a guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy in the years to come. About The Author . Chart Westcott.

For Taiwan, the Israel-Iran conflict has become an unexpected case study in how to defend a democracy against a regional hegemon.

Despite this, in 2009, it was his work to which Larry Summers turned as he co-ordinated America’s response to the financial crisis while director of the National Economic Council.

In this thoughtful study, Montgomery seeks to understand the logic that leads hegemons to variously support, accommodate, and oppose upstart states on their periphery. All global powers want access to ...

Beijing doesn’t want the costs of being a regional hegemon. There appears to be a technical issue with your browser This issue is preventing our website from loading properly.