Breathingearth - CO2, birth &death rates by country, simulated real-time - StumbleUpon. Www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2005/RAND_CF215.pdf. Country statistical profile: United States - Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD. Don't Bet Against the United States. Poor U.S. of A., forever in decline. the arrival of public theaters in Boston circa 1790 caused Samuel Adams to despair for the cause of liberty in the face of such debauchery.
"Alas! " he wrote. "Will men never be free! " Charles Lindbergh fretted, "It seems improbable that we could win a war in Europe. " Long before baseball, hand-wringing was the national pastime. I was born into a country reeling from Sputnik, which revealed to the whole world that Americans are as dumb as rocks. You'd think America would be as washed up by now as the Captain and Tennille. So don't reach for the defibrillator paddles or the rosary beads quite yet. Overblown Symptoms These days, the doctors diagnosing American decline tend to focus on two types of disease. And some of the most cited symptoms are overblown. Superpower - Criteria defining the status of a superpower. A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power.
Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), 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 hegemon. " It was a term first applied in 1944 to the United States , the Soviet Union, and the British Empire. Following World War II, as the British Empire transformed itself into the Commonwealth and its territories became independent, the Soviet Union and the United States generally came to be regarded as the only two superpowers, and confronted each other in the Cold War. The 2011 Legatum Prosperity Index. Interactive Infographic of the World's Best Countries - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The World's Population. Military stats: Russia vs United States.
SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of countries by level of military equipment (List); Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Global Rankings.
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Oxford: Oxford University Press; April 2014; Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. United States of America.
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