IBGEOG: Global Superpowers

The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through an increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows, and through the more widespread diffusion of technology

• Globalisation

• Global interactions

• Glocalisastion

• Americanisation

A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

• Country

• City

• Nation

• Community

A nation or a group of nations that is able to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, sometimes simultaneously in more than one place.

• Superpower

• Nation

• International organisastion

• Multi-governmental organisation

Cultural or political leadership and influence by one nation over others.

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Hegemony

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Hegemony

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

• Ideology

• Belief system

• Religion

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Communism

• Capitalism

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Communism

• Capitalism