Turkey is a true regional superpower, with one of the largest armies in the world.

The Soviets had their victory in World War II, followed by the creation of a global superpower.

China as a Superpower

It is difficult for a country to remain a superpower when the world doesn t want 92 of what it produces.

Rules for a Frugal Superpower

Chirac s rhetoric often includes references to a multi polar world in which the United States is no longer the only superpower.

But in the post World War II period, Japan again used the forces of globalization to reinvent itself as an economic superpower that became the envy of the world.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia lost the superpower status that it had won in the Second World War.

The world might expect that the American people the stewards of the world s only superpower, would be far more engaged on foreign policy questions.

And cheating did indeed upset the broader superpower relationship.

Within both blocs, smaller powers clustered around the superpower.

Momentous, sure but China is not yet a superpower.

The Soviets had their victory in World War II, followed by the creation of a global superpower. Putinism claimed victory after invading tiny Georgia in 2008.

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.

Even though it is no longer a global superpower, Russia s vast oil and gas reserves make it an energy superpower, and Putin seems intent on playing that card.

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.

We will have to deal with a different type of superpower.

On the top board of military power among countries, the US is the only superpower. On the middle board of economic relations among countries, the world is already multipolar.

The return of strategic nuclear weapons to the center of world politics increases Russia s political weight and highlights the field in which Russia can still assert itself as a superpower.

The reasons were always the same politico religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers hence modern Zionism s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.

The US may be the only superpower, but preponderance is not empire.

MADRID The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back.

Israel is not European Jewry, Barak said at the time. We are a strong country to which the whole world attributes nuclear capabilities, and in regional terms we are a superpower.

We all look to the next US president to re engage with the world community and international organizations, accepting that even a superpower should accept the rules that apply to others.

There is no reason why it can t be effective against the world s superpower.

A country with such influence over a military superpower cannot be considered weak.

And, after China, India looms as the next emerging coal based industrial superpower.

The United States was the world s only superpower, so others had to follow.

The US, of course, remains the world s only superpower militarily, economically, politically, and culturally.

As a rising superpower, China should feel confident that time is on its side.

It makes little sense to include Russia, a former superpower, with three developing economies.

So the world must now ponder that old Latin maximqui tacet consenterevidetur silence means consent and ask itself if it is wise to quietly consent to Putin s construction of a lawless energy superpower.

The Bush Administration felt betrayed by French diplomatic tactics at the United Nations, while French President Jacques Chirac felt confirmed in his mistrust of the sole superpower and his call for a multipolar world.

I don't think it does. I think it's already part of a Euro Turkish superpower.

SHANGHAI The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.

Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.

Even if America is no longer the world s only superpower, it still remains the indispensable nation.

Energy In recent years, Russia has frequently been described in the media as an energy superpower.

In the next few decades, the biggest challenge for the world will be peace, because the changing economic power structure will require corresponding political changes, which the US, as the incumbent superpower, will not easily accept.

The international community is again firmly focused on China s relationship with its rogue ally, and expects that, as an emerging superpower seeking to reassure the world of its peaceful rise, China will play a constructive role.

But even Americans are divided equally about whether China will replace the US as a global superpower.

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

The substantial cultural influence of the United Kingdom has led it to be described as a cultural superpower.

LONDON Around the world, America s presidential election campaign has attracted as much attention as domestic political controversies in each of our own countries. The interest the world has taken in America s vote is the best example of America s soft power, and a lesson in democracy from the world s only superpower.