Global Superpowers
What makes a country
a superpower?
In today’s world the superpowers consist of China, India,
Russia, European Union, USA, Brazil and United Kingdom. All these countries
have common things make them the superpowers of today. These things consist of
a out-sized cultural, economic, political, military, geographic and demographic
variables that contribute to making a specific country a superpower. All of
these important factors affect the countries ability to have influence
throughout the world, these combining factors help give countries credibility
within the world and overall making it a strong superpower.
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United
States of America
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Soviet
Union
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Positive
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Military, economy, political, democracy (Compared to the Soviet
Union, US had a strong economy, giving a better standard of living for its citizens.)
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Military, geographic (largest country in the world) Soviet Union
being a Communist country had a high focus on military power, unfortunately this
took a strain on other areas that make a superpower.
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Negative
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Geographic (The United States of America although has a good
population the land mass in comparison with the Soviet Union is quite small)
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Democracy, Political, economic status (because of the strain that the
cold war took on the Soviet Union it meant that economic, democracy was
affected. Communist party meant that people were simply controlled.
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I think that being a superpower may have could be correlated
with terrorist choosing to attack certain countries. However I also think that
this can’t be the main reason why terrorist choose to attack particular
countries. The reason I think this is because of the logic behind the attack.
An attack is meant to have a lasting effect on how the country is run, usually
either politically or economically. To be a global superpower a country already
is strong in these areas and therefore a terrorist attack even though very devastating,
the affect wouldn't be lasting. This is why I think that there would have to be
some sort of co-inciting issue that gives some sort of reasoning behind the
attack.
