Hegemony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
HEGEMONY hijem ne, he , hej mo ne, heg , Gr.,=leadership, dominance, originally of one Greek city-state over others, the...to refer to the dominance of one nation over others, and, following Gramsci , of one class over others. Conflict over hegemony fills history from the war between Athens and Sparta to the Napoleonic wars, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War. Gramscis...