Leadership or dominance, especially of one country or social group over others

Greek hegemonia — from hegemon (leader), from hegeisthai (to lead)

Dominance Supremacy Preponderance Ascendancy Primacy
Subordination Submission Equality
"India's growing economic and military strength challenges the traditional hegemony of Western powers in global institutions."

Indispensable in International Relations answers. Use to describe US unipolar hegemony, China's regional hegemony in Asia, or debates about multipolarity. Also appears in GS1 history contexts — British hegemony in colonial India.

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