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For Russians, America was an evil empire, the world of capitalist exploitation and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of economic prosperity and individual freedom.
For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of science, spirit, and soul.
In the sixteenth century, Spain emerged as a superpower following its conquest of South America.
Even if the US – and, to some extent, Western Europe – does retain a competitive edge, it is unlikely to retain the kind of global geopolitical control that it has had since World War II and, especially, since the Soviet Union’s collapse left it as the world’s sole superpower.
After the Soviet Union’s disintegration in 1991, Russia went from superpower to backwater.
International covenants, the Bush Administration conveyed, are maybe all right for lesser powers - but they are an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of action of the world's only superpower.
“We are a strong country to which the whole world attributes nuclear capabilities, and in regional terms we are a superpower.”
Israel needs to decide whether it is a regional superpower or a Jewish ghetto waiting for an imminent pogrom to begin.
A country with such influence over a military superpower cannot be considered weak.
Science, it seems, is becoming a partner in the unnerving development of a new global superpower.
Momentous, sure – but China is not yet a superpower.
If you are an emerging superpower, there is a distinct advantage to having the majority of the world’s population hold such sentiments.
Not only is China the next economic superpower, but the world order that it will construct will look very different from what we have had under American leadership.
While he did not claim to have changed China’s internal system, he had in fact spearheaded a fundamental reordering of the superpower balance of the time, and consolidated the estrangement between the Soviet Union and China that had been underway for several years.
One recent book, by the Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, focuses on the so-called “Thucydides Trap,” named for the ancient Greek historian who chronicled the competitive relationship that ultimately produced the Peloponnesian War between a rising Athens and Sparta, the superpower of its day.
That agreement signals recognition of what may be called “the Indian exception” – a decision by the world’s sole superpower, together with all other nations involved in commerce in nuclear-related materials, to sell such materials to India, despite India’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its two nuclear tests.
Next year, the world’s other economic superpower will assume the presidency of the G-20 and host its annual summit.
Russia is no longer a superpower, but rather a country of some 145 million people with an economy dependent on the price of oil and gas and no political ideology to offer the world.
But for China, there is the additional problem of how to extend its franchise as export superpower into the machine age.
What makes allies indispensable to an effective national-security policy is the ability of like-minded nations to provide the reality checks without which a fallible superpower is, as we have regretfully seen, unable to keep its balance on swiftly evolving and treacherous international terrain.
Politics is also in play, and in a manner that significantly influences who will lead the world’s superpower after this November’s presidential and congressional elections.
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times calls India a “premature superpower” – a country with low living standards but a huge economy.
It is frightening to people in foreign countries, who can conclude only that voters in the world’s only superpower have become dangerously unbalanced.
At the end of the century, the structural forces of global economic change caused the erosion of the Soviet superpower, and Mikhail Gorbachev’s attempts at reform accelerated the Soviet Union’s collapse.
On the American side, the temptation is to overplay its “sole superpower” role by acting unilaterally.
Even if, in military terms, America remains the sole superpower, military might is of limited use in the daily conduct of foreign policy.
While brushing up the vocabulary and abbreviations of the age of superpower deterrence, they discover that such a world has gone.
The fact that China’s repressive practices have not significantly impeded its rise to global superpower status has sent a dangerous message to other authoritarian regimes seeking to benefit economically from globalization without adhering to international human-rights standards.
The process began when the United States, emboldened by its emergence from the Cold War as the world’s sole superpower, started to overextend itself significantly by enlarging its military footprint and ramping up its global economic and security commitments.
On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar, and the US is likely to remain the only superpower for some time.
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