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• n  a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

• A superpower that exploits people yet claims to represent them, protectionist yet relies on the lifeblood given by immigrants, fights in two bloody wars across the globe and is by .
• Even if they do, the continuing chill in superpower relations poses at least three serious dangers: 1) An escalating arms race.
• A new definition of superpower must take account of who can upend an order that has lasted for centuries.

• world power
• major power
• great power
• power

News & Articles

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• Google acquisition keeps Waze out of rivals' hands
  Google buys mobile mapping service Waze, which has about 50 million users in 190 countries. Facebook, Apple and others had been eyeing the company. SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. snatched a popular mobile mapping service from the outstretched hands of its Internet superpower rivals, securing its dominance in real-time navigation information.        
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Not so superpowerful: Obama, Xi talk but the days of grand summits are past
  There was less than met the eye at the two-day summit of China’s Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama. Neither party was in a position to tackle the growing list plaguing the relationship between the superpower and the superpower-wannabe.
  June 10, 2013 - World Tribune