0 strong and powerful and therefore able to control others, or relating to the idea that a country is like this:
The United States is viewed as having a global hegemonic role in the world.
This hegemonic view pays too much attention to military might.
The EU was founded on a rejection of the hegemonic power politics that had plagued the continent for much of the previous four centuries.
Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
This paradox was resolved in various ways by different theorists: polygenism and theories of races as biologically distinct subspecies arose to maintain hegemonic hierarchies.
The tyranny of gender is that no one is safe from rigid, hegemonic notions of appearance and behaviour.
Critical theorists have concentrated on the radical potential of constitutional patriotism as a subversive force intent on 'de-centring' and destabilizing homogeneous, hegemonic national identities.
It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safety valve to release tensions from the camps.
