Word: superpowerdom
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...shaping European policy. It seemed certain that political union would follow the economic variety and the E.U. become a second democratic Atlantic superpower. But that dream was curdled by European dithering in the Balkan wars and by the concomitant realization that European electorates had no stomach for displays of superpowerdom as they have been conventionally measured: that is to say, in killing capability. In 2005, voters in France and the Netherlands - two founding members - rejected a draft European constitution, without which political union is impossible. Javier Solana, the E.U.'s estimable foreign affairs czar, may bustle around the Middle East...
...rigid trade-off between economic success in the age of globalization and military power. We think other countries can have one or the other but not both. This simplistic view, however, forgets even our own history, as well as the history of other rising states. The rise to superpowerdom in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s was accompanied by sharp growth in economic and military power. Each fueled the other. We forget this because as a status quo power we want to freeze a global order that benefits us. We'd much rather hold to the belief that...
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