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hyperpower

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hyperpower [ˈhaɪpəˌpaʊə]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an extremely powerful state that dominates all other states in every sphere of activity
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the power wielded by such a state


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These are the Dark Age experiences that a world without a hyperpower might quickly find itself reliving.
Bush quickly pulled the punch, saying, "That was a provocation" But his administration has acted both before and after 9/11 as if the question remains very much open, and understandably so, given the neo-Gaullist rhetoric from Paris on the need to build Europe as a "counterweight" to American hyperpower.
Established just war doctrine falls especially short, though, in failing to ask a number of crucial questions that now beg to be posed--not simply to accommodate the postmodern media age but no less to face up to the appetites, muscularity, and impatience of a United States that seems intent on fulfilling its imagined mandate as world hyperpower.
 
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