Hegemony has become a major aspect of today’s foreign policy, it has taken the place of imperialism and empires. There are vast differences between Britain’s Empire of the 18th and 19th centuries and the hegemon that has taken it’s place during the 20th and early 21st centuries, The United States. An Empire is a single nation that forcibly controls another nation, preferably lacking in strong central government, without specifically incorporating it into the country itself. The true definition of hegemony is the blurred distinction between primacy and overt domination, but in today’s society, the term was chosen in an aversion of the negative connotation to the word Empire.
To completely define the difference between hegemony and imperialism it is good to compare two shining examples, Britain and The United States. Britain’s rise to an empire was a long one. The island had been attacked and defended for centuries, keeping it on the cusp of militaristic technology. With this......
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