Superpowers in the modern world are those few nation states with huge economic resources far transcending the next division in such a league table. The exact number varies with different analyses. The most common view until the beginning of the 1990s...

SuperPower is a political simulation computer game designed by GolemLabs and published by DreamCatcher Interactive. SuperPower debuted on March 28, 2002 for the...

African politicians worry that the end of the Cold War will cost them aid from the United States and the Soviet Union. An end to superpower meddling will allow aid to be directed away from barren power games to the promotion of peace and...

The Reagan administration has been pursuing a two-track policy in the Persian Gulf. One track makes sense; the other does not. The smart move was Washington's energetic sponsorship of a United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire in the destructive war between the...

As the Watergate scandal enveloped President Nixon, he was buoyed by a secret "for his eyes only" message of moral support and encouragement from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, according to newly released State Department documents.Saying he wanted to share thoughts with Nixon "mainly on a...

President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Tuesday that he wants his successor to pursue similar policies to his own, and that most Russians want that, too, citing what he said was a shift from "permanent crises" to stability."Of course, I would very much...

The problems of the United States as the world superpower in modern era.