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Europe, however, has no financial hegemon.
Vinson's evidence shows that the colour-based social hierarchy of the hegemon became the hierarchy of the subaltern.
Emblematic of the trend in administrative elite recruitment are the careers of the two local hegemons.
Governments of a country with a big displacement in international financial markets may act like a hegemon, imposing their national policies in ways reaping national benefits and externalizing costs.
Yesterday's victims often become tomorrow's hegemons.
But why was a hegemon needed?
The hegemon is able to ensure the production of a package of collective goods that they privately prefer to what would emerge if they did not get involved.
The expansion of the caravan trade in the nineteenth century is regarded as having similar catalytic effects on the north, as would-be regional hegemons sought to direct profitable commerce.
