Sentence examples for hegemonic states from inspiring English sources

The historical situation a century after Confucius's death clearly shows that the Confucian attempt to moralize politics was not working; the disintegration of the Zhou feudal ritual system and the rise of powerful hegemonic states reveal that wealth and power spoke the loudest.

He has planted seeds from which might grow an underclass culture whose participants might achieve a self-empowerment denied them by the present hegemonic state of affairs.

The hegemonic state's character was further visualized by Keohane's theory of hegemonic stability.

In Ankole region, in western Uganda, a delicate balance on land existed between the Bairu (ethnic group that predominantly practiced crop production) and Bahima (ethnic group involved mainly in livestock production up to today) with the Bahima having maintained a privileged hegemonic state over land and resources (Doornbos 1975).

It flourished as a trade center and hegemonic state between 2900 BC until 1759 BC.

Unlike other, uglier times, there are no hegemonic, totalitarian states with malign intent ready to fill the proverbial vacuum.

How ever could the official ceremony around war, dominated by the military and state church, of a historically hegemonic country not represent war one-sidedly, speaking, rightly, of courage and self-sacrifice, but never of inhumanity and barbarousness as well, and certainly never our own?

Since the demise of the Soviet Union there has been little resistance to the hegemonic neoliberal mantra stating that all barriers to capital accumulation must be systematically removed and governments should not interfere in the market, a dogma that was directly responsible for the banking crash and subsequent recession.

A world of distinct, autonomous communities may be important to curbing the appetite of a hegemonic or global state to re-make the world in its own image.

Mari was abandoned for the first time in the middle of the 26th century BC, but was rebuilt and became the capital of a hegemonic East-Semitic state before 2500 BC.

In this regard, supporting a differentiated framework for the European integration might be a good strategy to achieve the mentioned symbiotic institutionalization instead of a normative (federalist) framework imposing too much hegemonic power over the nation state (Walker, 1998).