The phrase "achieving hegemony" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing dominance or leadership in political, social, or economic spheres.
Example: "The country's focus on military expansion is aimed at achieving hegemony in the region."
Alternatives: "gaining dominance" or "establishing supremacy."
(Fantasy and science fiction have also risen mightily, if not to the point of achieving hegemony, but they lie outside Anderson's purview).
"The U.S. has gone to great lengths to be the dominant power on the earth, first by achieving hegemony in its own region and then by preventing the rise of a peer competitor in other regions like Asia and Europe".
Another military historian, Gary Sheffield, says that "most modern scholarship" agrees that Britain's war aims in 1914 were the same as in 1939: "to prevent an authoritarian, militarist, expansionist enemy achieving hegemony in Europe … If the allies had lost", he says, "it would have meant the end of liberal democracy on mainland Europe".
As John retreated and his coalition collapsed, there could be no doubt that Capetian France had achieved hegemony in Christian Europe.
It's also true that pigs were still raised on farms, most vegetables were seasonal and hyperprocessed junk hadn't yet achieved hegemony.
Given the worldwide and worsening shortages of food, fresh water, fuel, and other resources essential to the maintenance of viable nationhood, one may wonder if any country will ever be able to achieve hegemony.
Originally containing the entire Old Testament in about 380 folios, of which 294 are extant, the Aleppo Codex remains the only known true representative of Aaron ben Asher's text and the most important witness to that particular Masoretic tradition that achieved hegemony throughout Jewry.
The disclosure of China's maneuvers — coming a week after Obama declared that the United States "will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows" — prompted the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific to warn Congress that China's ultimate goal is to achieve "hegemony" in Asia.
The broader profile this implies is outlined in Figure 2 below, which uses the size of triangles and L's to indicate the sense in which one or another triangle achieves hegemony in the social sciences, or becomes more fashionable in the humanities.
That led the government to adopt a two-pronged strategy explicitly aimed at achieving "media hegemony".
The United States rose to superpower status by first achieving regional hegemony.
