There is no standard or agreed method to decide which states are emerging powers. However a fundamental characteristic of an emerging power is that it is also an emerging economy, being that economic ...
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 ...
Unipolarity in international politics is a distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the cultural, economic, and military influence.Nuno P. Monteiro, assistant professor of political ...
During most of the latter half of the 20th century the two most powerful states in the world by far were the United States (formed in 1783) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formed in 1922) ...
The NIC has a Chairman and Vice Chairman, as well as a Vice Chairman for Evaluation, a Director of Strategic Plans and Outreach, a Director of Analysis and Production Staff, a Special Adviser, and Nat ...
Unipolarity in international politics is a distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the cultural, economic, and military influence.Nuno P. Monteiro, assistant professor of political ...
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, several groups extended the definition of the political community beyond nation-states to include much, if not all, of humanity. These "internationalists" inc ...
Unipolarity in international politics is a distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the cultural, economic, and military influence.Nuno P. Monteiro, assistant professor of political ...
The Marshall Plan was originally scheduled to end in 1953. Any effort to extend it was halted by the growing cost of the Korean War and rearmament. American Republicans hostile to the plan had also ga ...
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was drafted on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they did not accept i ...
The G7's precursor was the 'Group of Six', founded ad hoc in 1975, consisting of finance ministers and central bank governors from France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United ...
The Bretton Woods Conference took place in July 1944, but some of its core accords did not become operative until December 1958, when all European currencies became convertible. The IMF was developed ...
The U.S. Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to "borrow money on the credit of the United States". Congress has exercised that power by authorizing Federal Reserve Banks to issue ...
The Constitution of the United States of America provides that the United States Congress has the power "To coin money". Laws implementing this power are currently codified in Section 5112 of Title 31 ...
Joseph Stalin inherited and upheld the New Economic Policy (NEP) from Vladimir Lenin. In 1921, Lenin had persuaded the 10th Party Congress to approve the NEP as a replacement for the War Communism tha ...
