Economic hegemony implies the ability to center the economy around power while political hegemony means being able to dominate militarily; Essentially, a hegemonic state is a state that is able to impose its will on other states through its power or means, whether economically, socially, politically, militarily, or a combination of these factors. According to David Wilkinson, a state must meet the following criteria to achieve hegemonic status: investiture, installation, appointment and deposition, addition, maintenance of order, convocation, command, veto, subsidy, tribute and conversion. According to realist theory, states like Napoleonic France pursue the power and strategy of offensive realism for main reasons: states seek security in an anarchic system, some states inherently possess offensive capabilities, states can never be sure of the intentions of others states, survival is the primary goal of international actors, and states are rational actors who act to survive and exploit opportunities to gain a better position. According to these criteria and motivations, France under Napoleon managed to gain significant control over Europe by “[launching] numerous military campaigns, [occupying] numerous countries and [incessantly restructuring] the map of Europe,” but the state failed . to obtain long-lasting and stable results