world power
a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
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So the nature of war shifted just at the moment when the United States became a world power.
'Major American Failure.’ A Political Scientist on Why the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan | Philip Elliott | August 18, 2021 | TimeIt’s tempting for world powers to strengthen Buhari’s hand by arming his military further or funding his regime in the hope that he can maintain some semblance of a functional Nigerian state.
Yet there can be no turning the clock back to 2015 when the nuclear deal was signed between world powers and the Islamic Republic.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Is Radicalizing Young Men Across the Middle East. The U.S. Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy | Kasra Aarabi | February 11, 2021 | TimeShultz, like other successful secretaries of state, understood that the foreign policy of a world power constitutes a hierarchy of needs, and moral action must take its place in that hierarchy to win sustained public support.
George Shultz Showed U.S. Foreign Policy Is Strongest When We Combine Realism and Human Rights | Robert D. Kaplan | February 9, 2021 | TimeThe decline of America as both an ideal and a world power is marked by such moments.
That awakening, he says, led to a 180-page term paper on the balance of world power.
Moon Colonies, Penguin Bites, and John Wayne: Why We’ll Miss Newt Gingrich | Ben Jacobs | April 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in gaining the glories of the world—power, fame and fortune—Gibson seemed to lose himself.
He is the author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American world power.
In half their great effort against the world-power of Britain they had utterly failed.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) | John Richard GreenFrom the first the mind of Buonaparte had been set on a struggle with this growing world-power.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) | John Richard Greenworld power or downfall was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsWhy does it always appear the minute a crowd is sufficiently powerful to dream of world-power?
The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean MartinThe needle of the compass of progress has always pointed west; at least always since the Medo-Persian was the world-power.
Quiet Talks with World Winners | S. D. Gordon
British Dictionary definitions for world power
a state that possesses sufficient power to influence events throughout the world
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