The ghosts of hegemony and counter hegemony had has been haunting the true spirits of humanity, productivity, and the last but not the least, survival on the planet. Right from the beginning, the two opposite forces have been producing havocs in the human civilization. Afterwards, the emergence of power politics, economic domination, and militarization succeeded to ruin the concept of equality, human dignity, freedom and liberty at large. Class struggle trigged, society divided and the birth of ideology further isolated people trapping in to mental inflexibilities, living into orbits of caprices. Moreover, power shifts are an inexorable phenomenon in history. The global power structure continually evolves. The rise of statehood, system, law, and rules & regulations patronized structure and superstructure in the world especially in the Europe. The invention of political economy and economic determinism changed the basic elements of national policy, foreign policy and of course military misadventure. The dawn of globalization, information technology revolution and emergence of unipolar power system has further complicated the concept of hegemony and counter hegemony. The work of Antonio Gramsci has been very influential in the field of International Political Economy. Not only has the Italian revolutionary's body of thought been taken as a starting point for conceptualizing hegemony at the international level. In this research paper, concept of hegemony and counter hegemony is applied in the affairs of today Middle East and Asia and pinpoint certain scenarios relating to this basic concept.
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