In the 19th century the Guatemalan government tried many times to gain hegemony over the other Central American states by force.
Such studies emphasize the internal dynamics of conflict and focus on how actors discursively struggle with each other in order to gain hegemony over the dominant discourse on the issue.
This is why none of Japan's Asian neighbors want it to gain hegemony and why, the author concludes, it is imperative that the United States not let it happen.
In 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu gained hegemony over the daimyo and thus was able to establish in 1603 the third shogunate, headquartered in Edo (now Tokyo).
As to when and how a single text type gained hegemony and then displaced all others, it is clear that the early and widespread public reading of the Scriptures in the synagogues of Palestine, Alexandria, and Babylon was bound to lead to a heightened sensitivity of the idea of a "correct" text and to give prestige to the particular text form selected for reading.
With the demise of state socialism in 1989, neoliberalism gained global hegemony and transformed Central and Eastern Europe.
The samurai leader Minamoto Yoritomo gained military hegemony over Japan in 1185; seven years later he assumed the title of shogun and established the first shogunate, or bakufu (literally, "tent government"), at his Kamakura headquarters.
The U.S. Navy was gradually gaining worldwide hegemony and after the war against Spain in 1898, Washington concluded that a canal in Central America was essential to ensure the maritime supremacy of the rising world power.
If, by contrast, the golden-shower diplomacy of Donald Trump continues, while the Chinese and Russian versions of hegemony only gain strength, then we will likely witness a harsher world order based on autocracy, Realpolitik, and commercial domination, with scant attention to human rights, women's rights, or the rule of law.
But so, too, did the competitive spirits of the leaner, hungrier sides, hunting for the means to exploit weakness; looking for marginal gains to deconstruct the sporting hegemony.
The Saudis fear that further battlefield gains will translate into expanded Iranian hegemony across the region.
