How to pronounce“hegemony”in English
everything we were dealing with, for example, politically, or what they used to talk about the 1980s and the 1990s is trying to figure out a soft landing from the US post-war dominance, right? The
hegemony that because we were the one power that wasn't devastated, that we were feeding, I mean, there was a sugar high, a historical sugar high that we had after 1945 that inevitably was going
to come down as the rest of the world caught up. But what was that going to look like for the average American right on the street? So I remember in the 1980s when we were dealing with
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Definitions of “hegemony”
Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
“The idea of a German republic and confederacy like the American, is surely less fantastical than a hegemony to which nobody is willing to submit.”
Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force.
“The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.”