User talk:Khelnor
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[edit] A welcome from Noble Eagle
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[edit] WikiProject?
Please see Talk:Superpower to consider joining the new WikiProject Power in international relations. Nobleeagle (Talk) 07:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Great power paragraph
Hi, this is CRGreathouse from the Great power article. I wanted to discuss the changes you made to the paragraph about the US and the Soviet Union. Here it is, so it's not lost in page revisions:
- Since the Second World War, the United States and Soviet Union ascended to superpower-status. After the dissolution of the USSR, the newly formed Russian Federation emerged on the level of a great power, leaving the United States as the sole percieved superpower in a unipolar world—despite Russia's inheritance, as the legal successor state to the Soviet Union, of many of the Soviet Union's superpower capabilities. This ended the bipolar world order that has existed throughout the Cold War, although the idea of the unipolar world is being challenged by the concept of the multipolar world where no nation has overwhelming influence over other major powers.
This is an interesting point and important point to make in an article. In fact I don't think a paragraph does it justice: it could use its own section and references. For example, I am of the opinion that the word is not headed toward/in a traditional multipolar world, but a tripolar one. Wilkinson (1999) has an excellent article on this in International Studies Review. I'd love to help with this some time.
However, I don't think it has a place in this article. Superpower would be a better place, and other articles might lend themselves to this discussion as well. For the purpose of the Great power article, though, the US is a Great power, and discussion as to its superpower status is not relevant except as a clarification that it could be both superpower and great power. (Actually I don't see the word used that way--I see the two as exclusive--but that's why I say for the purpose of the article.) As a result I did remove your changes to the paragraph.
In any case, if you'd like to get something started with that--even if only in your userspace until you decide which article is best--drop me a line on my Talk page and I'll see what I can do.
CRGreathouse (t | c) 20:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- I've responded to your post on my talk page. CRGreathouse (t | c) 00:20, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
