Uzbekistan's ambitions to be the regional hegemon in Central Asia are well known.
To be identified as the new hegemons was gratifying evidence that the opposition's nerve was cracking.
They operated as unchallenged ideological and economic hegemons for a long time unscathed but were eventually felled by their own ‘foreign policies’.
France led the charge against the hegemon, and she wasn't alone.
Normally, as a hegemon the U.S. has the ability to replenish political capital almost at will.
These states are more comfortable with a distant hegemon with an honorable history of restraint than a local hegemon with a persistent history of expansionism.
It's never easy to be the hegemon; intentions, no matter how benevolent, will always be seen by others, in faraway places, as malevolent.
It would seem that global market forces have acknowledged the assumption by the United States of undisputed world leadership and accepted with enthusiasm the new hegemon.
Not all global hegemons are equally frightening.
The international environment is far more likely to enjoy peace under a single hegemon.
In international politics, benevolent hegemons are like unicorns - there are no such animals.
On the face of it, this does seem like a mystery: global hegemons don't usually declare war on the status quo.
The sustainable way of being a global hegemon is to set up an international system that enshrines economic and political values which serves the interests of both the great powers and all potential rivals.
It seeks to prevent the emergence of a rival hegemon, and the doctrine of ‘preemptive strike’ is part of that.
The revolutionary and Napoleonic period would see three European hegemons dominate European international politics.
Throughout history, hegemons have been challenged.
If hegemony permits this sort of behaviour, then we shouldn't have hegemons.
But it was always outclassed in terms of brute strength by the various would-be European hegemons.
Well, what is wrong is that other global hegemons that sought domination - Napoleonic France, Nazi Germany - always generated a hostile coalition of states that ganged up and challenged the big kid on the block.
That is, hegemons fall victim to what Yale historian Paul Kennedy famously called ‘imperial overstretch.’