1. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

2. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

3. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

4. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

5. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

6. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this country’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

7. Connecting the Learning
What do you remember about this union’s position in the world order? Use the criteria below to help!
Superpower Criteria POPULATION | SIZE | MILITARY STRENGTH | RELIGION ECONOMIC STRENGTH

8. To know the four main ways that superpowers exercise their power
Superpower Geographies 1. Superpower Geographies a) defining superpowers b) influencing power b) changing patterns of power c) theories explaining the growth of superpowers
Learning Objectives:
To know the four main ways that superpowers exercise their power
To be able to give specific examples of exercised power
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9. How do superpowers exercise their power?

10. Economic Power
Wealth allows superpowers to export their power around the world, buy resources and influence trade patterns.
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11. The world’s top ten richest companies.
Where do you think these companies originate?
Five of the the top 10 richest companies are from the USA.
776 of the top 2000 are from the USA.
Source:
Forbes, 2008
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12. Military Power
The USA has the world’s most powerful military machine and this is geographically widespread. (p103 in your book shows military bases)
45% of all world spending on military is by the U.S.A.
Nuclear Weapons
Army Personnel
Satellite Technology
Spies
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13. Cultural Power What is cultural power?
Individual Task: Read through the article by Timothy Garton Ash
What is cultural power?
What examples of cultural power are illustrated in the article? What other examples of cultural power can you think of?
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14. Geographical Power This is the sphere of influence a superpower has.
What geographical power is identified in these images?

15. Criteria for defining a superpower Military Power Economic Power Cultural Power Geographical Power How do each of these powers affect each other? Which of these is the most important? Why?
Think! Japan holds the world’s second largest economy and almost half of the world’s top 100 companies are Japanese. What reason could you think of which might explain why Japan is not a “superpower”?

16. Exam Question
Giving examples, explain how superpowers can exert their influence.