Emerging Superpower

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This paper discusses that the United States, as the lone superpower in the world today, has major impacts on international economics, politics and culture. In this article, the writer looks at the conditions in the United States in the 19th Century that lead to its major geopolitical status in the 20th Century. It is basically argued that the conditions were a continental size economy of scale and the ideology of the expanding frontier.

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"Moving from a peripheral to a central position within the world geopolitical order, the United States brought to that position its own unique ethos. American economic predominance at the end of the Second World war allowed the successful projection of the American ethos and its actual agents beyond American shores. This statement indicates that the United States had a major impact on international economics, politics and culture."

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