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Ex. 27. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition where necessary.
a) 
— a counterweight ___ the U.S. hyperpower
— contenders ___ the role of hegemon
— sympathy ___ terrorist organizations
— heading ___ a period without a hegemon
— incompatibility ___ the market economy and the 
— communist monopoly ___ power 
— influence of economics ___ the study of 
diplomacy 
— preoccupied ___ the achievements of …
— to exercise autonomy ___ foreign policy
— to put pressure ___ Europe 
— transform the union ___ a retirement community
— receding ___ the height of their power
— divide up his empire ___ the Treaty of Verdun
—  ___ a few exceptions, most interventions were 
short lived
— a decline ___ international influence
— an era reminiscent ___ the age of 
Alfred
— ___ a result of military interventions
— dependence ___ foreign capital
— ___ other words
— pose a geopolitical threat ___ 
— retreating ___ their own regional 
spheres of influence
— retreats ___ its hegemonic role
— the alternative ___ a single 
superpower
— the antithesis ___ globalization
— the apolar world’s susceptibility ___ 
military raids 
b)
1. ___ a few exceptions, nations who possess nuclear arsenals have agreed 
to not assist other nations ___ developing their arsenals.
2. ___ the Treaty of Nanjing, China ceded the island of Hong Kong ___ the British.

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3. ___ other words, the hegemon uses its power to structure the relations ___ states to serve its 
own interests.
4. ___ the past 14 years, Canadian foreign policy has lost its direction and retreated ___ the world 
of soft power.
5. A global balance of power based ___ justice and equality for all is the only way American 
power can transform itself ___ being a hegemon ___ an honest ally and partner.
6. Disillusionment ___ the West has led many Africans to wonder if China might be a viable “al-
ternative” ___ Western hegemony.
7. 
Do you see China as a contender ___ world power with the United States?
8. Due to the Enlightenment, Christian influence receded ___ many aspects of life and a new, 
secularist culture developed.
9. Friedman argues that periods of globalization in world history go hand ___ hand ___ a de-
cline ___ hegemony and that this is accompanied ___ a general process of regional economic 
decline.
10. Hegemony does strongly imply hierarchy, and hierarchy is reminiscent ___ empire and ___ 
bids ___ universal monarchy.
11. Hong Kong retains considerable autonomy ___ shaping its international destiny.
12. If the US wants to use its economy to put pressure ___ a country, other countries can do the 
same ___ America and you get a lose-lose situation.
13. If Iran is not a geopolitical threat ___ American interests, neither is political Islam a direct dan-
ger ___ Western values and goals.
14. In every school with five hundred pupils there are about twnety-five dominant ones strug-
gling ___ primacy. 
15. In the era of Galileo, Christianity was considered to be incompatible ___ modern astronomy.
16. India has more sympathy ___ political and intellectual freedom of the west but is wary ___ 
hegemony — whether from the west or the east.
17. Jiang and Putin regard the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which covers more than one-
quarter of mankind, ___ a counterweight ___ NATO and an important pillar ___ a multi-polar 
world structure.
18. Many of these areas are still not well protected. With the loss of the dunes, they’re more sus-
ceptible ___ flooding.
19. NATO’s success in Kosovo was underpinned ___ its diplomatic efforts in the region.
20. South Asia may be heading ___ a nuclear arms race that could lead ___ arsenals growing into 
the hundreds of nuclear weapons.
21. The fundamental incompatibility ___ Turkish and Western approaches to the Kurdish ques-
tion is inherently a world-order issue that has pitted the principle of respect ___ human rights 
___ the traditional state system.
22. The media seems to have retreated ___ its role as a provider of serious information and de-
scended into the entertainment industry
23. The United Nations could not afford to reduce its commitment ___ East Timor ___ that date, 
___ that crucial time in its existence.
24. The United States and Japan are engaged ___ a global race ___ primacy ___ new tech-
nology.
25. There emerges a constructive strategy to free developing nations ___ dependence ___ for-
eign capital.

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