A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically...

"With great power comes great responsibility" is a proverb popularized by Spider-Man in Marvel comics, films, and related media. Introduced by Stan Lee...

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics is a book by the American scholar John Mearsheimer on the subject of international relations theory published by W...

Power politics is a theory of power in international relations which contends that distributions of power and national interests, or changes to those...

veto power. Due to all of the permanent members being considered great powers, the power of veto has also been called the "great power veto" or "great power...

A middle power is a state that is not a superpower or a great power, but still exerts influence and plays a significant role in international relations...

17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. During...

as diplomatic and soft power influence. Traditionally, superpowers are preeminent among the great powers. While a great power state is capable of exerting...

significant amounts of power within the international system are referred to as small powers, middle powers, regional powers, great powers, superpowers,...

The term "great power" has only been used in historiography and political science since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Lord Castlereagh, the British...

territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (German: Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed...

With Great Power... is a Silver Age superhero tabletop role-playing game by Michael S. Miller, independently published by Incarnadine Press. Its title...

people List of pseudonyms List of science-fiction authors With great power comes great responsibility Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's...

for the Imperial Russian Navy. His victory in the Great Northern War ended Sweden's era as a great power and was followed by the proclamation of the Russian...

Minardos Power. He was born after the death of his father. He is the fourth actor to bear the name Tyrone Power, the first being his great-great-grandfather...

tactics; however, it is generally agreed that in bipolar systems, each great power has no choice but to directly confront the other. Along with debates...

A great power is a nation, state or empire that, through its economic, political and military strength, is able to exert power and influence not only over...

Great-Russian chauvinism is a part of more common Great-Power chauvinism or chauvinism in general. As the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE) says, Great-Power...

"Least of the great powers" is a label used to conceptualize Italy's international status as a great power. This concept originated with the unification...

the enlargement of the European Union, which is sometimes considered a great power as a whole, despite it not being a sovereign state. Historically, dominant...

possessed. The temperate zone as power factor remained widely stressed in the modern research. In fact, all modern great powers have been located in the...

little power in the Command Center remains, to send the Rangers on a dangerous quest, to the distant planet Phaedos, to seek and obtain the Great Power and...

such as a fire team, squad, etc. A great power, in a military context Military power (jet engines), the maximum power setting of a military jet aircraft...

Europe was a general agreement among the great powers of 19th-century Europe to maintain the European balance of power, political boundaries, and spheres of...

dimensions of state power: geography, population, economy, resources, military, diplomacy, and national identity. Traditionally, only great powers or superpowers...

power in international relations focus on great power politics and it will for this reason not be discussed here. For, as László Réczei noted, power status...

the balance of power theory. With no great power to check its adventurism, the United States will weaken itself by misusing its power internationally...

III's self-coup in 1772. This shift of power from the monarch to parliament was a direct effect of the Great Northern War. Suffrage under the parliamentary...

The European balance of power is a tenet in international relations that no single power should be allowed to achieve hegemony over a substantial part...

changes, populist or personalist politics, and external influence from great power politics. During crises, backsliding can occur when leaders impose autocratic...