and show why China was the only 15th century superpower.
No single wall separates East and West; no one rival superpower is aligned against us.
Or do you make a move that may have a domino effect and accelerate the erosion of America's supremacy as the world's greatest superpower?
As the sole military superpower, the United States may often be able to undertake unilateral initiatives for the sake of national security.
The US is the agricultural superpower.
Some argue that it will be a “premature” superpower.
Similarly, many Europeans may yearn for a less interventionist America; but an isolationist superpower could be much more frightening.
But though this will be a source of friction, it need not be the catastrophe some think inevitable as the established superpower and the rising one fight it out for a dwindling resource.
Was this really the new superpower?
During the cold war the Europeans depended on and deferred to their superpower protector (though France was always stroppy).
For all its rarity, the Sudan referendum is an example of what China will increasingly face as its overseas investments expand - the diplomatic burdens of being an aspiring superpower.
The answer is that they appropriated much of the wealth of a collapsing superpower.
For one party, the Indian economy's amazing growth rates indicate that the country is a nascent superpower -an America in the making.
Many of these were underutilized or misused during its two decades as the world’s lone superpower.
But the superpower of the future?
Shouts of “Death to America!”may have echoed around Friday prayers in Tehran over the past 30 years, but the older imperial superpower has been a bogeyman in Iran for far longer.
China is indeed the fragile superpower of her book's subtitle.
Turkey was arguably the world's leading superpower during the 16th and 17th centuries, its empire stretching from Algiers to Baghdad, and from Mecca to the gates of Vienna.
Constant worrying about exactly when the superpower will fall into second place is causing anxiety throughout American society, the survey found.
