Today, however, it is clear that industry no longer holds such a hegemonic position.
Despite the rise of rival treatments, Mr. Plotkin said he remained sanguine about what he called the "hegemonic" position of psychoanalysis in Argentina's psychological community.
"As soon as the new government is formed, it will enter the global sphere with a power that is 10 times greater than that of the West and overthrow the West from its hegemonic position," he said.
His stated thesis is that the big generation of boomers has concentrated wealth, adopted a hegemonic position over national culture and failed to attend to the needs of the future.
Toni Negri and I argue that immaterial or biopolitical production is emerging in that hegemonic position – the production of ideas, information, images, knowledges, code, languages, social relationships, affects and the like.
Since the middle of the 19th century large-scale industry held the hegemonic position within society, not in the sense that most people worked in factories (in fact, a small percentage did, even in the dominant countries) but rather in that the qualities of industry were progressively imposed over other economic sectors and eventually over society itself.
This point of view that centered on the US hegemonic position in the Asian economic development and integration also leads to an adaptation of the "flying geese" model.
Finally, in historical overview of SAARC's limited success, and in the bilateral river water negotiation processes, the common factor is India's hegemonic position.
As mentioned by Levey and Brown, the American hegemonic position would not be seriously threatened unless the US erects a protectionist policy and isolates itself from global trade (Levey and Brown 2005).
As an example proving this argument, Germany has emerged as a hegemonic power in the wake of the Eurozone crisis (Bulmer, 2014; Streeck, 2015), and this hegemonic position immediately triggered national sentiments in the Mediterranean members (Hedlund and Aline Regina Alves, 2017).
