Word: superpowerdom
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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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