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France is a cultural superpower, consistently ranked among the most powerful nations in soft power, [191] [192] if not the most powerful of all. [193] France is a developed country with the world's seventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by PPP; [194] in terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. [195]
Superpower disengagement is a foreign policy option whereby the most powerful nations, the superpowers, reduce their interventions in an area. Such disengagement could be multilateral among superpowers or lesser powers, or bilateral between two superpowers, or unilateral. It could mean an end to either direct or indirect interventions.
The most powerful and best-known nation of these periods is the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 934–609 BC. [ 16 ] Shalmaneser III (858–823 BC) attacked and reduced Babylonia to vassalage, and defeated Aramea , Israel , Urartu , Phoenicia and the Neo-Hittite states, forcing all of these to pay tribute to Assyria. [ 17 ]
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence, which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers' opinions before taking actions of their own.
A potential superpower is a sovereign state or other polity that is speculated to be or have the potential to become a superpower; a sovereign state or supranational union that holds a dominant position characterized by the ability to exert influence and project power on a global scale through economic, military, technological, political, or cultural means.
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Logo of Forbes magazine Vladimir Putin was ranked the most powerful person 4 times. Between 2009 and 2018 (with absence in 2017) the business magazine Forbes had compiled an annual list of the world's most powerful people. The list had one slot for every 100 million people, meaning in 2009 there were 67 people on the list, and by 2018, there ...
There is therefore a general lack of consensus between the various authors and scholars in reference to the nations and empires that were allegedly the world's most powerful at various points in history. [1] [2] The status of foremost power globally implies that of superpower.