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In his book Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World, Dr. Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, argues that a superpower is "a country that can exert enough military, political, and economic power to persuade nations in every region of the world to take important actions they would not otherwise take". [20]
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.
The term was coined by Time publisher Henry Luce to describe what he thought the role of the United States would be and should be during the 20th century. [6] Luce, the son of a missionary, in a February 17, 1941, Life magazine editorial urged the United States to forsake isolationism for a missionary's role, acting as the world's Good Samaritan and spreading democracy. [7]
The definition of a "superpower" varies across different sources, but one thing most agree on is that a superpower is a nation or state that has a superior military. F-35 Lightning II. Photo ...
America wasn’t just a superpower; it was the cool kid everyone wanted to emulate. Soft Power Superpower What Ramaswamy fails to grasp is how the ’90s epitomized balance.
He was fond of saying that “[a]nyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American,” and he believed strongly that this was a pillar of American greatness.
In Superpower, Bremmer argues that ordinary Americans too often base their foreign policy choices on allegiance or opposition to the party in power. He, therefore, outlines three options for readers to consider what sort of country America should be and how it should use its superpower status, in order to strengthen the nation's commitment to a ...
The U.S. is the only superpower in Europe, that much is true. But it is a beached superpower. Its forces were sent across the Atlantic in the 1940s to defeat fascism and then in the 1950s to deter ...