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Hegemony   Listen
noun
Hegemony  n.  Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hegemony" Quotes from Famous Books



... extend her influence as far south as Siam, and even to invade Korea with a large army in 1592, it looked as if she were well started on her career as a world-power. But that was not yet to be. The hegemony of her clans passed into the powerful and shrewd Tokugawa family, the policy of which ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... the long run irresistible; therefore all arrangements made by the Great Powers naturally in most cases gain, either at once or in time, the consent of the minor States. It may be said that the Great Powers exercise a kind of political hegemony within the Family of Nations. Yet this hegemony is not based on law, it is simply a political fact, and it is certainly not a consequence of an organisation of ...
— The League of Nations and its Problems - Three Lectures • Lassa Oppenheim



Words linked to "Hegemony" :   political system, form of government



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