hegemon

Namely: the USG is a hegemon that exerts a disproportionate and negative influence on the world and is hypocritical in its foreign relations.

To borrow Winston Churchil's phrasing: America is the worst possible global hegemon, except for all the others.

The article also goes into discussing the necessity of a world hegemon to keep trade open.

We might accept that the US was a more benevolent hegemon, and still allow that it willfully provoked Japan to attack.

But in the West it's hard to say when one hegemon is different to another.

What justifies it is the fact that it is by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world.

How long has it been since the last rebellion in the Americas, against the last global hegemon before them, the British Empire?

There are many benefits to being a hegemon, but it comes with obligations too.

Wars fought for territorial or trade advantage: Wars fought to reign in a hegemon.

It is China pushing to establish itself as the East China Sea's regional hegemon.

The only topic of discussion is: would you like some other hegemon better than the one we have?

Do you believe that if China replaced the US as the hegemon that they would not also export their totalitarian approach to Order as well?

The hegemon ought answer to a much stricter standard than the "pleasant little countries" who do not wield such power.

It is irrelevant whether it is "right" for a nation to impose itself as hegemon.

China's unspoken strategy may be to paint the US as current hegemon and current "heavy." If so, they do seem to be doing it wrong.

That has an easy answer if you look at treaties like TPP: The hegemon uses power over trading "partners" to work around the will of the people.

She only trusts Ender because of the Hive Queen and The Hegemon.