of the Heritage Foundation examines the possible risks involved for the United States if China were to emerge as a
superpower, especially considering the country's recent military and technological developments.
This isn't exactly the reaction we should expect from the top leadership echelon of the "sole remaining
superpower." After all, the president has at his command the most fearsome military arsenal the world has ever seen, as well as the world's most technologically sophisticated intelligence services.
October 2003--a radio-advertising blitz, targeting small grain and row crop states reinforces "The New
Superpower of Harvesting" messaging.
Superpower Syndrome is partially a recap of his earlier work.
More than mere domination, the American
superpower now seeks to control history.
A new world had emerged, dominated by a lone
superpower.
America is a target partly because of arrogance and misdeeds and partly because it is the
superpower. But it is also a target because the US, for all its faults, represents a world of freedom and pluralism which terrorists and despots recognize as the ultimate enemy to their plans and dreams.
No one should blame the world's only
superpower for acting when others can't or won't.
That Americans as citizens of a country acknowledged to be the only
superpower in the world today is not always seen positively by other nations was especially brought home by the events of September 11.
I was a citizen of the "world's last remaining
superpower." This "
superpower" was pouring into its "Defense" budget some thirty million dollars an hour, nine thousand dollars a second to keep me safe.
For most of the 1990s, America's
superpower rival appeared to be neither a
superpower nor a real rival, and it was an open question whether Russia would prove a sustainable economy.
If a coalition is needed to stop aggression, for example, the United States (or another future
superpower) must quickly negotiate complex issues raised by its various coalition partners.