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The second type of superpower is the integrator.
The Bush Administration felt betrayed by French diplomatic tactics at the United Nations, while French President Jacques Chirac felt confirmed in his mistrust of the sole superpower and his call for a multipolar world.
Obama may have come to understand that when you are the leader of the world’s only superpower, you need to be feared just a little if you are to be respected.
It is hyperbole when activists call such movements "the world's other superpower," yet governments ignore them at their peril.
Xi’s motive in pursuing modernity is not, as many in the West have wrongly inferred, to establish China as a superpower on par with the United States; on the contrary, Xi views his current challenge and mission as being primarily domestic.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, according to this argument, the bi-polar balance of power vanished and America became the world's only superpower, engendering resentment and envy - and hence a difficult time for US-European relations.
Moreover, while America's status as the world's sole superpower is a structural fact, wise policies can soften the sharp edges of this reality.
At the end of that decade, American’s believed the country was in decline; yet, within a decade, they believed that the US was the sole superpower.
This game is not about the enforcement of trade rules, or their design, but about the sheer geopolitical rivalry between the incumbent superpower and a rising challenger.
Much of the country’s current debt dates to the Cold War, when the world’s superpower rivalry played out in the Horn of Africa.
Japan is gone as an economic superpower.
Why, then, do China’s rulers continue to backslide into doubt and fear, and why do they seek to avoid having China labeled a superpower?
Outsiders are increasingly convinced that China is a superpower, and that it needs to show that it can be a responsible one.
Dog Days For The Super DollarCAMBRIDGE -- Is the United States’ position as the world’s dominant superpower at risk if the dollar loses its super-currency status?
It has been a great ride for the US, and America’s financial supremacy has certainly eased the burden of being a superpower.
American voters, who are famously loathe to increase taxes, might start thinking a lot harder about the real economic costs of their country’s superpower status.
And yet global statesmen made good use of the new organization as a forum to contain superpower tensions.
Peacekeeping missions, not even mentioned in the Charter, were devised to contain conflicts around the world, and to prevent them from igniting a superpower conflagration.
As a vanquished superpower, Russia sought to create a counterweight to the victor.
The world might expect that the American people – the stewards of the world’s only superpower, – would be far more engaged on foreign-policy questions.
Today, Trump has launched a tariff race with China, an economic superpower, perhaps with similarly far-reaching potential consequences.
Turkey is a true regional superpower, with one of the largest armies in the world.
The alternative is frightening, because a declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.
Even in its heyday, the Soviet Union was a one-track superpower.
Sweden, already a humanitarian superpower in terms of the aid it provides to conflict regions, certainly will not close its doors.
Futurologist Herman Kahn forecast that Japan would become a nuclear superpower, and that the transition in Japan’s role would be like “the change brought about in European and world affairs in the 1870’s by the rise of Prussia.”
Within both blocs, smaller powers clustered around the superpower.
Put another way, China is becoming the sort of superpower that feels entitled to control the sea, land, and air around its territory – just like the US.
On the contrary, Russia’s loss of superpower status is completely unacceptable.
Since the Cold War's end, America is the world's sole superpower.
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