1. India Rising Pointers * India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate from 1950 - 1980 * In the late 2000s‚ India’s growth has reached 7.5%‚ which will double the average income in a decade. * The highest annualized 1999-2008 growth rates are for states Gujarat (9.6%)‚ Haryana (9.1%)‚ or Delhi (8.9%) and lowest Bihar (5.1%)‚ Uttar Pradesh (4.4%)‚ or Madhya Pradesh (6.5%). * India is the eleventh-largest economy in the world and the fourth largest by purchasing
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China’s armed forces The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is seen by many as an economic powerhouse with the world’s largest standing military that has the potential to translate economic power into the military sphere. As one of the elements of power‚ a nation’s military potential is based not only on its capability to defeat an adversary‚ but also its ability to coerce and exercise influence. China’s standing armed force of some 2.8 million active soldiers in uniform is the largest military
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George C. Herring’s book From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 describes how the American colonies originated from Europe and our journey westward in to California. Herring does a good job making his way through our nation’s history. Depicting all the major events that took present. Describing major contributor‚ the present-day nation that we live in. Herring starts the book off by introducing the early forms of government that The American colonies started. He goes on to talk
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The Space Race was the closets the United States has come to losing it superpower title to other nations. The Space race was a twelve-year competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore the Solar System. This race began on October 4‚ 1957 when the Soviet Union deployed an artificial satellite called‚ Sputnik to orbit in space. Sputnik created a sense of fear in the United States that the Soviet Union had “reached the heavens” with the use of technological advancements. The
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The tensions between Russia and Ukraine at the start of the year have generated renewed analytical interest in Russia’s re-emerging position as a superpower‚ driven chiefly by its actual‚ or potential‚ domination of the global supplies of energy. Along with its role as a swing supplier of oil (enabling it to manipulate the balance of power between OPEC and the industrialised consumers)‚ the episode has highlighted Russia’s position as the pre-eminent supplier of gas. Russia controls a third of global
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CAN INDIA BECOME A SUPERPOWER Introduction: 1. The end of the Cold War and the era of “unipolar” US dominance that followed has led many to wonder about the future of international power. Who will rival‚ or perhaps even replace‚ the US? At least one…At least one obvious candidate has emerged. Although it would be premature to categorise China as a global superpower‚ it is quickly developing into the US’s most plausible challenger. But in discussions of globally important matters - Syria‚
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For India to be a superpower what principles would be appropriate for the relationship between state and religion? India has followed the fourth model of states and religion which is the secular state and religious politics model. For years the country has been witnessing politics which has been closely linked with religion. Although the country is secular in nature which provides equality to all religions‚ it has been seen over the past years that all the successful leaders have had certain communities
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THE VISIT OF THE SWAN | Make friends among people who are like you | | Once there lived a swan by the side of a big lake. The lake was situated in the middle of a dense forest. The swan was passing his days happily‚ until one day‚ an owl came there. He drank the water of the lake and started living there. "This is an isolated place‚" said the swan to the owl. "Besides‚ the lake goes dry during the summer season. It is better that you go to some other place to live in." But the
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Who does not want to have a superpower? Having a superpower is everyone’s desire. There are many different opinions of what superpower does one want to have. Flying‚ inhuman strength‚ invisibility‚ and many more are just a small example of superpower that humans want. However‚ Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are different‚ because they said that they want more time and more energy as their superpower. More time and energy are the only superpower that could bring all humans in this world to live a better
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World War Two left an everlasting impact on the world and would lead to the eventual development of the United States becoming the first superpower in the world. Before the second Great War there were no true superpowers‚ there was both Russia and the United States as great powers but not one nation truly dominated the world stage. The United States since World War I had been a great economic power through foreign policies generated by President Wilson. President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ retained
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