Hegemony

“Hegemony” (hih-JEM-uh-nee) – from the Greek for “supremacy” – is leadership, predominant influence, or authority (usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates).

Example (as used by Noam Chomsky in the New York Review of Books): “Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”

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