Contrary to China, India finds it difficult to adapt to its status as an emerging Great Power.

Momentous, sure but China is not yet a superpower.

The dream of Iran s resurgence as a great power and civilization could be realized in unison with the major regional and global powers, rather than ending in the nightmare of confrontation.

While Russia is no longer the superpower it was in the Soviet era, militarily it is still a great power, at least in Europe and Asia.

Russia should be treated as a major power, which means consultations on important global issues.

Europe s Arab interlocutors are unimpressed they want Europe to stop talking like a Great Power and start acting like one.

Outsiders are increasingly convinced that China is a superpower, and that it needs to show that it can be a responsible one.

In a global competition, a superpower s competitors are bound to exploit its weaknesses.

The current crisis marks an important step in China s evolution as a great economic power.

No great economic power in history has been born without force until now.

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

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

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

Russia s desire to reclaim its role as a powerful global player is understandable and legitimate.

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

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.

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

Regional organizations are still unable to solve regional problems without great power leadership.

According to this view, every great power needs obedient satellite countries.

The question is not whether China rises to great power status peacefully, but whether it intends to remain peaceful when it gets there.

Russia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles.

Syria, as many people have pointed out, is not Libya or Mali. Nor is it a great power.

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

Many believe that Congress with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping the poor now has a mandate to transform India into a great power.

In one generation, the nation of the people of Israel had a tremendous and dramatic change that made them a great power in the Near East.

Ironically, today s decline in American global power may lead to more effective regional cooperation.

China might itself wish to be a major force in a multi polar world, but has been plagued by its lack of overall strength.

Because Russia claims the status of a world power, it is expected to show restraint and responsibility.

Because those who aspire to democratic culture are in power, or have societies that are leading globalized, powerful societies, powerful countries.

American President Barack Obama visited China, more in the spirit of a supplicant to an imperial court than the leader of the world s greatest superpower.

My final guideline for policy is that Europe is not and will not become a superpower or super state.

Although considered a great power, the Italian industrial sector was relatively weak compared to other European major powers.

Now that America is no longer a hyperpower with no strategic challengers, Russia has reasserted its status as a superpower, a claim that is not necessarily supported by reality.

And, as Joseph Nye has written, Russia is a superpower in decline, while China and (less markedly) the others are on the rise.

The developing countries, where the greater part of the planet's population lives, are a major force that supports peace and development throughout the world.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a disaster for North Korea, as it was for Cuba not only did Soviet economic support evaporate, but the Kims could no longer play off one power against another.

Nor can it afford to alienate its largest trading partner, a neighbor and an emerging global superpower, which is known to be prickly over any presumed slights to its sovereignty over Tibet.

They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power, forgetting that the United States was the world s largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.

Israel needs to decide whether it is a regional superpower or a Jewish ghetto waiting for an imminent pogrom to begin.

Putin, for his part, built a great energy power, turning the country into a banana republic with hydrocarbons.

Where Stalin had his barbarous yet monumental drive to industrial modernization, Putin boasted of making Russia a great energy power.

Without a great power that is willing both to share the lead and to push from behind, regional organizations cannot take charge in their own neighborhood.

Asserting itself as a major power outside the Western realm, Russia has boosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China and most Central Asian countries.

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.

Anti Americanism has also been described as an attempt to frame the consequences of U.S. policy choices as evidence of a specifically American moral failure, as opposed to what may be unavoidable failures of a complicated foreign policy that comes with superpower status.