- A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy (July 18, 2003)
...efer to an "American empire" and to the United States as "the world's only superpower." Instead of those formulations, try to conceive of ones like "superpow... - Why There Can Be No Alternative To The US Dollar (December 8, 2004)
... First, the US is, and will remain for some time to come, the world's only superpower. This status is usually accompanied by currency supremacy. Second, US e... - American Apocalypse (December 22, 2003)
...a new constellation of forces bound up with what I've come to think of as "superpower syndrome." By that term I mean a national mindset—put forward strongly by... - Spoils to the Victor (April 18, 2003)
...an't really be expected to obey, my dear fellow, we being the world's only superpower and all that. This particular law is superpower-friendly. Our country is t... - Mandela Blasts US Attack Threats (September 2, 2002)
... Bush administration. "We are really appalled by any country, whether a superpower or a small country, that goes outside the U.N. and attacks independent cou... - Global Power (October 13, 2002)
...egy; one can almost sense the regret that there is no counterweight to the superpower. The extended list of threats which Washington claims give it the right to... - Annan to Hold Talks With Iraqis (September 3, 2002)
...n Johannesburg. "We are really appalled by any country whether it is a superpower or a poor country that goes outside the United Nations and attacks indepen... - No Answer (July 21, 2003)
...S.-backed dictators quickly fell, but their would-be successors lacked the superpower backing to consolidate control. The result in all three countries has been... - Deepening Doubts on Iraq (August 29, 2003)
...rm, otherwise the U.S. "risks being branded as the aggressive and arrogant superpower that disregards the wishes of the international community." The United Sta... - Why Our World is More Dangerous (September 2, 2002)
...e one good effect. They would overturn this visionary nonsense. The one superpower would see that it was dealing with an indivisible world which it, by far t... - No Justification (March 19, 2003)
...n of a new American empire, we are also present at the creation of another superpower--the largest, most broadly based peace and justice movement in history, a... - General Warns of Unwinnable Guerrilla War (March 22, 2002)
... more than they ever had and also, right now, there is no overtly opposing superpower [playing the antagonist role that America did by arming and training mujah... - War Is Talk of the Town in Baghdad (August 6, 2002)
...op owner in the Iraqi capital. "When the president of the world's only superpower says he wants to do something, he will try to do it. It doesn't mean he'll... - Are We Losing the Peace? (July 7, 2002)
...mixing with civilian populations. That's exactly what a big, heavily armed superpower with a taste for making war from the air doesn't want; it makes the chance... - Washington's Burden... (April 2, 2002)
...t's happening now is increasingly tragic. Until the world's sole remaining superpower assertively intervenes, the already ugly fight will continue escalating to... - 'I Did Not Want to Be a Collaborator' (July 28, 2003)
...rying to achieve an ideal political system. People cannot understand why a superpower that can amass all that military might can't get the electricity back on.... - A War Without the UN (October 7, 2002)
...ericans. They see it as a necessary check on the immense power of the sole superpower. The UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, reflected that view when he spoke b... - An Ever More Dangerous Dependency (February 27, 2004)
...aijan (oil reserves) and Georgia (oil pipeline to Turkey) the old regional superpower Russia is being forced to watch as the United States secures its strategic... - Musharraf Ready to Use Nuclear Arms (April 6, 2002)
...s a last resort, the atom bomb is also possible". He said India had a "superpower obsession" and was energetically arming itself. Both states tested nuclear... - US-British Strategy on Iraq Close to Collapse (October 28, 2002)
... the US-British draft that they will not have to confront the world’s sole superpower directly by exercising their veto. Britain and the United States have... - US Presses for Total Exemption From War Crimes Court (October 9, 2002)
...rd and editor of a book on the court. "To exempt oneself, especially for a superpower like the United States, undermines the very premise of the court." The... - How Many Body Bags? (November 4, 2003)
...inevitably will put a higher priority on having a new Iraq serve the U.S.' superpower needs — oil, commerce, military power — rather than meet the needs of regu... - At Last, a Sort of Peace in Congo (October 13, 2002)
...atic looting, Rwanda lost the world's sympathy. South Africa, the regional superpower, together with countries giving aid to Rwanda, urged it to make peace. Und... - Rogue Statesman (September 25, 2002)
...'s work for him. Bush plans to turn America from a well-meaning-but-flawed superpower into public enemy No. 1. The plan is very simple. First, it says that... - Next Target: Iran? (December 18, 2004)
...ng mullahs to supporters of their efforts to fight off an invading foreign superpower. Rather than facing armed resistance from one faction of the population—as... - Armed to the Teeth (February 10, 2002)
...that America at the beginning of the 21st century is already not so much a superpower as a behemoth on the world stage. Economically dominant, it enjoys militar... - US Peacekeepers Given Year's Immunity From New Court (July 13, 2002)
..., into the first public test of wills between the administration of a lone superpower generally suspicious of multilateral institutions and a galaxy of smaller... - Situation Deteriorating Rapidly in Afghanistan (August 28, 2002)
...the Soviet Union itself. They will jump at the opportunity to trap another superpower in the same grinder. Osama bin Laden has said that al Qaeda was prepari... - Rattling New Sabers (March 10, 2002)
... potential and unexpected contingencies." And partly because a nuclear superpower is always thinking the unthinkable, and often building weapons that can do... - Bush Continues the 'Big Lie' in the Face of Mountains of Contrary Evidence (June 22, 2004)
...he Russian president who is seeking to curry favor with the only remaining superpower, claims that Russian intelligence services warned the United States after... - Losing Our Best Allies in the War on Terror (August 20, 2002)
... liberation, my South African co-teacher and our students understood it as superpower bullying. Whereas I wanted to understand the mind-set of those who would k... - America Alone in the World (September 23, 2002)
...ons of collective security after 1945, precisely when it was the strongest superpower. That generation understood that it is the hegemonic state, paradoxically,... - Feinstein: Iraq Invasion 'Un-American' (September 5, 2002)
...d reinforce the image of the United States as an "arrogant and unilateral" superpower. California's other Democratic senator, Barbara Boxer, wrote a letter... - US, China on Collision Course Over Oil (February 2, 2004)
...d to prevent China from becoming an oil consumer on a par with the U.S., a superpower collision is in the cards. The good news is that we are still in a positio... - Approval for US After Sept. 11 Cooling (August 14, 2002)
...power is the power of the good." She argued that the U.S. role as the sole superpower was a danger to the rest of the world. At the end of the program, 70% o... - Remember Falluja (April 28, 2004)
... expression. The practical difference ought to be obvious. America is a superpower, which can evidently do what it pleases, and it can withdraw from the war... - Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Overrated as a Threat to America (January 28, 2004)
...to unpredictable terrorist groups. If such assistance were discovered, the superpower might be motivated to incinerate their countries. Before the war, the pres... - America's Shady Ally Against Terror (March 11, 2002)
... But by late September such promises of freedom became unnecessary. The superpower had arrived in Tashkent with good will and much else. This last case of lu... - Mandela: US a Threat to World Peace (September 10, 2002)
... there is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like. And of course we must conside... - The Untidiness of Freedom (April 23, 2003)
...ups. Clearly seeking to remind the Syrian government that the world's sole superpower has many means at its disposal with which to try to force Damascus to chan... - The Rise of the New Global 'Empire' (October 1, 2001)
...d partly by what it is not. It is not a nation-state. It is not an aligned superpower bloc. It is an empire, in the classic sense, but has no seat like the Roma... - Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost (August 24, 1998)
...ow to run a war of attrition violent and well-organized enough to humble a superpower. That decision is coming home to roost.... - Peaceful Warrior (July 14, 2003)
...er we want to do whenever we want to do it because we are the world's sole superpower." But even as he expressed doubts about the Bush administration's decis... - NION: Return of College Peaceniks (October 8, 2002)
...ut how we can stand responsibly as young people – and use the power of our superpower in a good way," says Jonathan Colon, an art major at the University of Mas... - 'Dr. Strangeloves' Meet to Plan New Nuclear Era (August 7, 2003)
...ar weapons. We had made the promise not to do these weapons, but this sole superpower is just ignoring the non-proliferation treaty. That's madness." Today'... - World Image of US Declines (December 5, 2002)
...ely few were bothered by the role of the United States as the world's only superpower. American technology and popular culture were widely admired, with substan... - The Arab Street Explodes (March 22, 2003)
...ise the people's anger at America will weaken governments that support the superpower against their will. In democratic Muslim countries like Indonesia and P... - Resignation Speech (March 18, 2003)
...erful coalition. The US can afford to go it alone, but Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected not by unilateral action but by multi... - The Fog of War Talk (July 28, 2003)
...n, the report began by stating that the United States at present is a lone superpower that "faces no global rival. America's grand strategy should aim to preser... - America's World Role — Present at the Creation (June 27, 2002)
...communism. Mainly, the changes were for the better: the end to ideological superpower conflict; a vastly increased number of countries wishing to adopt liberal... - American Primacy in Perspective (July 1, 2002)
...s the arrival of what he called a "unipolar moment," a period in which one superpower, the United States, stood clearly above the rest of the international comm... - The Struggles of Democracy and Empire (October 10, 2002)
...d with stunning audacity to mutilate the face of America, the world's sole superpower trembles on the threshold of a new imperial season. That America, despite... - Why Does 'Al-Qa'ida' Point Its Spearhead at the United Nations? (May 11, 2004)
...nt. That war was the first war that the United States, as the world's only superpower following the creation of the unipolar world, launched outside continental... - The Empire Backfires (March 29, 2004)
...hing called globalization; the global sphere must be orderly; we, the sole superpower, will monopolize force throughout the globe, and thus supply international... - The Problem With The Peace Movement (February 7, 2003)
...ct of life, and quibbles about the practicality of the USA behaving like a superpower, and the UK following behind. As in the past, the reaction of today'... - Iraq, Israel and the UN (October 12, 2002)
...le justice, or so the argument goes, requires even-handed behaviour by the superpower in the two conflicts. That may be so. But a quite distinct sort of cla... - Eight Washington Lies About Iraq (July 31, 2002)
...ns are the great equalizers against our atomic weapons." (Time "Everyman a Superpower", 11/24/97). Re inspections, Reuters reported, 12/13/99, "The (Europea... - One-Way Street (July 11, 2002)
...oon to be a second) and the end of the Cold War, America remained the only superpower, which instead of prompting a radical re-appraisal of Arab policy drove th... - A New Grand Strategy (January 1, 2002)
...y, many American strategists today assert that the United States, the only superpower, is a "benevolent" hegemon, immunized from a backlash against its preponde... - Keep the Global Ideal Alive (July 14, 2003)
...d been in readiness to enforce resolutions of the Security Council? A wise superpower would know it needs to share responsibility — which entails sharing the fo... - The Eagle Has Crash Landed (July 9, 2002)
... in the situation in which the United States currently finds itselfóa lone superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and... - Critical Resistance (November 20, 2002)
...ironmental destruction in its wake — and of the risks inherent in a single superpower unilaterally imposing its will on the rest of the world — new crises are b... - Living By The Sword (September 2, 2002)
...ear future. For the present, and for some time to come, the US will be the superpower that dominates world affairs. This has a particular relevance to the q... - Many Balk at Preparations for War Against Iraq (August 8, 2002)
...ating a small nuclear arsenal. How much less secure would then the nuclear superpower feel? Has it felt less secure since India and Pakistan got hold of nuclear... - The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
...world viewed the U.S. as a rather self-absorbed but essentially benevolent superpower. Military actions in Iraq (1990–91 and 1998), Serbia and Kosovo (1999) wer... - Pursuing the Millennium: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (February 2, 2004)
...on and the world, and, of course, for the world's only, Israeli-supporting superpower. Like its Islamic counterpart, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel has gro... - Manifest Destiny Warmed Up? (August 14, 2003)
...circumstances. First is the sheer scale of America's power. While the sole superpower remains more than ready to put its technological prowess to military use,... - The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
...a part of any larger cause? Some of these complaints about the American superpower are not new; indeed, the violent protests that another unilateralist presi... - The Empire Expands Wider and Still Wider (June 11, 2003)
.... Effectively, the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower, which no other power could or wanted to challenge. The sudden emergence o... - Anti-Anti-Americanism (February 1, 2003)
...Monde piece on the spirit of terrorism, with its claims that the American "superpower ... through its unbearable power is the secret cause of all the violence p... - Impossible Histories (July 1, 2002)
...s. After the Cold War ended and the United States became the "world's only superpower," it soon became evident that in the search for new world-scale, outside e... - An Interview With Gene Sharp (July 9, 2003)
... no matter what they do, should be untouchable? That is gross! I think any superpower has a responsibility to explore other kinds of struggles that might be dev... - The Web Rewires the Movement (August 4, 2003)
...n world history; the New York Times dubbed its participants "the other superpower." The day sent a clear message about the grassroots organizing power o... - A Grand Strategy of Transformation (December 1, 2002)
...gle hegemon as long as it's a relatively benign one. When there's only one superpower, there's no point for anyone else to try to compete with it in military ca... - An Analysis of Opposition Movements (February 18, 2003)
...hat happened this past weekend as a—the numbers they described almost as a superpower in their own right. Public opinion was countering the administration, it s... - Diplomatic Breakdown (April 27, 2003)
...s a strategic asset for any statesman, one not lightly tossed aside. For a superpower, facing a world automatically fearful of its power, that ability is vital.... - The Peace Movement Plans for the Future (July 24, 2003)
...ce and justice movement. Heralded by the New York Times as "the second superpower," this combined movement is perhaps the most important unintended conseque... - The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
...he Soviet Union the United States doctrine should be to assure that no new superpower arose to rival America's benign domination of the globe. The U.S. would de... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
...o develop weapons to use against us. But then we were dealing with another superpower, capable of obliterating us. Now there is a huge imbalance between the two...
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