India as a superpower What is a superpower? What does a superpower exactly mean? Superpower is a developed‚ self reliant and is a truly independent nation. Not powerful merely for material development and worldly prosperity of the nation but as a spiritually developed nation as well‚ based on the solid foundation of the country’s legacy of enduring values. Officially Republic of India‚ Hindi Bhārat or Bhāratavarsha‚ India is a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a
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Buckminster Fuller once said‚ “You never change things by fighting the existing reality to change something‚ build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” America in many ways was the existing model‚ we were on top in almost every industry. Today the rest of the world has become the new model. In Fareed Zakaria’s article‚ “The Rise of the Rest‚” He explains how America is falling behind as the rest of the world is exceeding‚ leaving us in the dust. Barbara Ehrenreich‚ helps us understand
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OCR text. -- To obtain permission to use this article beyond the scope of your HeinOnline license‚ please use: https://www.copyright.com/ccc/basicSearch.do? &operation=go&searchType=0 &lastSearch=simple&all=on&titleOrStdNo=0015-7120 The Lonely Superpower Samuel P. Huntington THE NEW DIMENSION OF POWER T H E past decade global politics has changed fundamentally in two ways. First‚ it has been substantially reconfigured along cultural and civilizational lines‚ as I have highlighted in the pages
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world. Firstly‚ India has a fine chance at becoming a superpower. India’s young population coupled with the second largest English-speaking population in the world‚ could give India an advantage over China. Also while other industrial countries will face a youth gap‚ India will have lots of young people‚ or in other words‚ workers. India cannot become a superpower just by sniffing a ‘feel good’ feeling in the air. We cannot become superpower just by discovering ice on the moon; or with nuclear
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hard power consisting of military and economic power. Therefore‚ America should adopt multilateral foreign policy rather than following its hard power policy in order to maintain and increase its status as a superpower in today’s world. The new concept of soft power‚ other economic superpowers‚ and diverse climate issues substantiate this viewpoint. To begin with‚ hard power such as military and economic powers has lost their strength after the end of the Cold War. A new and different concept
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bank robber with their spider web? Indeed we were all influenced by characters with superpowers‚ believing one day we can grow up‚ and one day use powers such as those of Superman or Spiderman to one day save the world. However as we mature‚ we eventually learn that we may not have a supernatural power‚ but we all have a mind of our own‚ where we can create opinions and thoughts and use those beliefs as superpowers of our own to influence the world as it is today‚ for a better tomorrow. An example
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have predicted a change in the balance of power with the rise of China increasing. It would seem the world is gravitating towards multipolar centres of power. Furthermore‚ an article in The Economist (2011) predicted China to be the global economic superpower by 2030. With the threat of China’s growth being a potential danger for US hegemony‚ the question arises to which structural realist theory offers the best guide to US policy makers; Waltz’s defensive realism or Mearsheimer’s offensive realism?
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The two superpowers of the 1930’s‚ Americans and the Soviet Union‚ were starting to have a few disagreements‚ which initiated the COLD WAR’s BEGINNING. The ROOTS OF THE COLD WAR started when the Americans and the Soviets found out they had different systems of economy. Then the Americans and Soviets started to lose trust in each other. In the Yalta Conference‚ Stalin promised an established “broadly representative” government and free elections in Eastern Europe and to divide Germany only temporarily
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‘Today’s China is both a “status-quo power” and a “revisionist power”’ The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become more integrated and willing to cooperate within the global political and economic systems than ever in its history. However‚ there is growing apprehension in the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. in regards to the consequences of rising in economic and military power in China. Descriptions about Chinese diplomacy in the policy and scholarly are less positive lately concerning China’s
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The Meaning of Power The instrumental character of power is that of a "means to an end." It includes the tools‚ resources‚ and abilities used to pursue goals. The meaning of power and its role in politics is understood first with a background of its dual nature. De jure refers to the theory of power. The concept of "absolute power‚" considers tangible factors. When comparing nations’ power‚ money and gross national product are units of measure; the United States is more powerful than Mexico
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