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Predictions made in the past have not been perfect. For example, in the
1980s, many political and economic analysts predicted that
Japan would eventually accede to superpower status, due to its large population, huge gross domestic product and high economic growth at that time.[2][12] Though still the world's tenth-largest population and third-largest economy as of
2013 in terms of nominal
GDP, Japan has faced an ongoing period of weak growth since the
Lost Decade of the
1990s, and has been suffering from an aging population since the early
2000s, eroding its potential as a superpower
Superpower is a word used to describe a state with a dominant position in international relations and which is characterised by its unparalleled ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale. This is done through the combined-means of technological, cultural, military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence. Traditionally, superpowers are preeminent among the great powers (e.g., as the
United States is today).
The term first applied to the
British Empire, the United States, and the
Soviet Union. However, following
World War II and the
Suez Crisis in
1956, the
United Kingdom's status as a superpower was greatly diminished; for the duration of the
Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union came to be generally regarded as the two remaining superpowers, dominating world affairs.
At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
1991, only the United States appeared to fulfill the criteria of being a world superpower.[
1][2][3]
Alice Lyman Miller defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemony."[4]
There have been many attempts by historians to apply the term 'superpower' to a variety of past entities.
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