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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. List of great powers from the early modern period to the post cold war era Great powers are often recognized in an international structure such as the United Nations Security Council. A great power is a nation, state or empire that, through its economic, political and military strength ...
List of ancient great powers, a list of great powers before the year 500 AD; List of medieval great powers, a list of great powers after the year 400 to 1500; List of modern great powers, a list of great powers since the year 1500 to the present
1815 1878 1900 1919 1939 1945 c. 2000 Austria [nb 1] Austria-Hungary [nb 2] Austria-Hungary [nb 3] British Empire [nb 4] British Empire [nb 5] British Empire [nb 6] British Empire [nb 7]
The formalization of the division between small powers and great powers came with the signing of the Treaty of Chaumont in 1814. A great power is a nation or state that, through economic , political and military strength, is able to exert power and influence over not only its own region, but beyond to others.
Map of nuclear-armed states of the world NPT -designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan) Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel) NATO or CSTO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Belarus) States formerly possessing nuclear ...
The Great powers of 1914 were 'world-powers' because Western society had recently become 'world-wide'." [23] Other suggestions have been made that a great power should have the capacity to engage in extra-regional affairs and that a great power ought to be possessed of extra-regional interests, two propositions which are often closely connected ...
A world map in 1945. According to William T. R. Fox, the United States (blue), the Soviet Union (red), and the British Empire were superpowers. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, meeting at the Yalta Conference in Crimea in February 1945, near the end of World War II
Articles relating to superpowers, states with a dominant position characterized by their extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale. This is accomplished through the combined means of economic, military, technological, political, and cultural strength as well as diplomatic and soft power influence.