出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：Hegemony" is a term from the vocabulary of classical Greek history which was deliberately revived in the 19thcentury to describe a modern phenomenon. In its classical context, the clear denotation of "hegemony" is a military political hierarchy, not one of wealth or cultural prestige; although both economic and cultural resources could serve to advance military political hegemony, they were not at all of the essence. Hegemonic relations were conscious, and based upon complex motives and capacities. Individuals, peoples and states could desire, seek, struggle for, get, keep, lose and regain hegemony. Hegemony was sought or exercised over nations, over territories, over the land or the sea, or over t.n hol.n, "the whole"; but "territories" turn out to be the states and nations thereon, "the land" and "the sea" actually meant "the mainland states" and "the island states," and t.n hol.n was the world system, the whole system of interacting states. Hegemonic power relationships in the classical style are alive and well today; far from being time bound, place bound or culture bound, hegemony in the classical sense is a transhistorical and transcultural fact that merits comparativecivilizational and comparative world systems study. While bilateral, alliance, and regional hegemonies are far more frequent both today and in the past, the most useful hegemony for study in a comparative civilizations/world systems context is systemwide hegemony: a unipolar influence structure that falls short of universal empire.
