That failing, said Gilberto Dupas, director of the international relations institute at the University of São Paulo, was because of Brazil's unwillingness to "take any steps that might be interpreted as an attempt to impose hegemony".
Hezbollah is unlikely to concede defeat, give up its weapons or facilitate the execution of a plan that it would regard as an Israeli-U.S. conspiracy to impose hegemony over the region.
Through the teaching of history in this selective fashion, however, Chinese supremacy is made to appear to be the natural order of things, and never something that was forcibly imposed; hegemony, in Chinese usage, is a state of affairs that can only result from the actions of ill-intentioned foreigners.
It was the fierce push-back by Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and (at that time) Hamas against this attempt to impose a "hegemony of moderation" across the region, that caused regime change in Syria to become such a priority for the Sunni monarchies of the Gulf.
Blair must reconcile his strongly and suddenly found conviction that war is better than containment with the fact that the US hawks, now prominent in the Bush administration, have been advocating a war on Iraq for the past 12 years - not to liberate the Iraqi people, or to protect the world from weapons of mass destruction, but to impose US hegemony on a strategically important country.
This would allow Damascus to re-impose its hegemony over Lebanon, bargain favorably with Israel over the Golan Heights and induce the international community to find an exit for Syria from the tribunal that will soon consider the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, which Syria almost certainly ordered.
3500 BC), it developed into a trading empire and later turned into an expansionist power that imposed its hegemony over much of northern and eastern Syria.
Yet according to a different opinion, buying time has been to the benefit of Iran strengthening its nuclear reactors and capabilities at length, because obtaining military nuclear capabilities would give Iran exceptional and superior regional status and would serve its objectives of imposing its hegemony.
Then again, maybe I'm only saying that to help the industrialized North impose its imperial hegemony and neocolonial dominion on humanity.
We urgently need a reorientation in which evangelicals continue to be warmly welcomed but are not invited to impose a theocratic hegemony.
"The United States wants to impose a new hegemony," said Pedro Correa, 56, an industrial draftsman from Santa Teresa del Tuy, a city about an hour's drive south of central Caracas, who supports Mr. Chávez.
