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But the rules of that game will continue to be set by the entrenched hegemon for a long while to come.

However, when America thinks important interests are at stake, it still ignores the rules, just like the next hegemon.

In the Western hemisphere it has been a benign hegemon; in the wider world it has been either a leader or an adversary.

Yet, as if to declare itself the world's unrivalled hydro-hegemon, China is also the largest dam builder overseas.

China's rulers say they want economic development and a peaceful world in which no "hegemon" can throw its weight around.

But currency politics is very, very powerful and is part of what has made the US a hegemon for so long, like Britain before it.

Yet Pax Niponica never got past the early 1990s; one former inevitable global hegemon has been downgraded to the sick man of Asia.

Below lies South Korea, which has 20 times the GDP of North Korea, twice its population, and a military alliance with the global hegemon.

Back in 2000 the United States, the undisputed hegemon, was mainly at peace with the world.

Otherwise, China's continuing rise may soon result in a classic rivalry between reigning hegemon and ascending challenger.

S. campuses is merely the first front of the inevitable struggle between the hegemon and its challenger.

Duringthese conferences, one prince was sometimes declared hegemon, and given leadership over the armies of all the feudal states.

In the just-completed summer Olympics, America's status as the globe's athletic hegemon was clearly under attack.

If they are so engrossed into bad-mouthing envy, at the end of the day they will both be inadvertently backward-assed by the Hegemon.

Some Western commentators divine a profound shift as China bids for the role of global hegemon.

For two decades the United States has been the undisputed global hegemon.

In short, we see ourselves as a benign hegemon, and we are quick to assume that other states appreciate us and want to be like us.

In the 1980's, Japan seemed to be becoming the new economic hegemon.

But that would put us in the role of Britain as the declining hegemon.

Or was he somehow Ender's brother, not just named for but actually embodying the Hegemon who had died three thousand years before?

In the liberal order, no state, even the hegemon, is above the law.

When the hegemon staked its national security on getting rid of Saddam Hussein, we turned it down.

The hegemon, then, is the country with the best credit.

If China does usurp America, what kind of hegemon will it be?

Brazil evidently sees it as an extension of Nafta, with the US playing the hegemon.

We need to do this before China becomes a hegemon