¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superpowers
1. superpower [n] - See also: superpower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superpowers
Literary usage of Superpowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"EUROPE AFTER THE superpowers Ronald Steel The Europe of the Cold War has dissipated
into the background of history. None of the ineluctable "realities" we ..."
2. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale, Raymond A. Hinnebusch (1991)
"SYRIA AND THE superpowers Although the Syrian-Israeli conflict has been confined
for the most part to the immediate region, Hafiz al-Asad has never lost ..."
3. Right V. Might: International Law and the Use of Force by Louis Henkin (1989)
"The ethical framework within which the superpowers act and react significantly
influences the unwritten rules of the game that often dictate whether a ..."
4. Right V. Might: International Law and the Use of Force by Louis Henkin (1991)
"The ethical framework within which the superpowers act and react significantly
influences the unwritten rules of the game that often dictate whether a ..."
5. The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations by Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk (1989)
"Such an inquiry proceeds by way of investigating shifts in geopolitical encounter
on the part of the two superpowers, and what these shifts imply for the ..."
6. Africa South of the Sahara: The Challenge to Western Security by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1981)
"... Africa and the superpowers he last two decades have witnessed a strategic
revolution. The United States was the only superpower when World War II ended. ..."
7. The Pacific by Ranginui Walker, William M. Sutherland (1988)
"Even before the superpowers have embraced the general principle of ... Because of
their strategic importance to the superpowers, South-East Asia and the ..."
8. Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation by J. Bruce Amstutz (1994)
"But levels of trade were much lower (mostly for insurgency reasons) than before
the Soviet intervention. RELATIONS WITH THE TWO superpowers DRA RELATIONSHIP ..."