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This threat could recur, however, if there is a renewed standoff between new superpowers.
An international order that made complete sense when the world was emerging from the ruins of World War II, only to enter a long Cold War between two nuclear superpowers, may no longer be adequate, and may stand in the way of better arrangements.
In a world divided between two uncompromising superpowers, India’s temporizing seemed like appeasement at best, and aid and comfort for the enemy at worst.
At the height of the Cold War, he moved the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, toward peace.
To many, war between the two superpowers seemed inevitable.
Before I became Soviet leader in 1985, relations between the Cold War superpowers had hit rock bottom.
There were no major wars between superpowers, global trade expanded and drove economic growth, poverty was more than halved, and rapid advances in science and technology delivered benefits to every corner of the world.
Since then, the risk of nuclear-armed superpowers triggering Armageddon has been substantially reduced, even if it has not disappeared entirely.
In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.
How will the world’s two superpowers, China and the United States, come to terms with the fact that important commodity-exporting regions from Africa to the Middle East to Central Asia are littered with ill-formed nation states?
What he wanted was to launch a political process by shaking Israel out of its complacency and forcing the superpowers to revive the search for a settlement.
But the mass movement of people is already creating three types of migration superpowers: new colonialists, integrators, and go-betweens.
The third type of immigration superpowers are go-betweens, which use their geography to extract concessions from migration-phobic neighbors.
Once one of the world’s two superpowers, Russia’s GDP is now about 40% of Germany’s and just over 50% of France’s.
And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia’s rising superpowers.
So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group’s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world’s superpowers.
This, however, only raised heckles from those who still see the group as a means to stare down the superpowers.
Like its predecessor, this one will feature two superpowers that disagree on how the world should be organized, but agree that there can be only one winner.
China is aspiring to become the equal of the US, one of the world’s two dominant superpowers.
And even if one does regard the US and China as coequal superpowers, it is important to note that the US has much wider international support and acceptance.
Why a Sino-American Cold War Won’t HappenOXFORD – It is often said that the US and China – superpowers at economic, geopolitical, and ideological loggerheads – are heading toward a new cold war.
The superpowers were likened to a pair of scorpions in a bottle, each knowing a first strike would be suicidal.
India’s Chinese DreamSEOUL – In recent years, China and India have both emerged as global economic superpowers, with China leading the way.
In the absence of alternatives, the best solution, it seems, would be a reduction in the number of actors – a return to a bipolar world in which two superpowers decide for themselves and their subordinates.
The Soviets had the great victory over Hitler’s Germany in World War II, which left Russia one of the world’s two superpowers.
The two global economic superpowers resent each other’s “exorbitant privilege.”
All of this uncertainty surrounding the world’s emerging and traditional superpowers has impeded efforts to address security challenges in the Middle East, from the enduring Israel-Palestine conflict and the aftermath of the Arab Spring to the new and potent threat posed by the Islamic State.
But as the superpowers learned in the Cold War, the absence of airtight verification does not render inspections useless.
During the Cold War, European countries all but lost their sovereignty to two new global superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
The two superpowers’ divided control was eventually relinquished, and the old European state system was replaced by the European Union, with its promise of eternal peace between EU member states, and between Europe and the larger world.
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