world power
Major global player
A world power is a nation with enough military, economic, and political influence to shape global affairs.
The term emerged in the early twentieth century as countries like Britain, France, and the United States dominated international relations.
China has risen to become a world power.
Superpower denotes even greater dominance.
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- interventionismPolicy of deliberate involvement
- nationSovereign political entity
- geopoliticsGeography's role in statecraft
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
Pax Americana · Concert of Europe · dominion · military strategy · gunboat diplomacy · influence · regional dominance · sphere of influence · iron curtain · nuclear deterrent · lordship · Treaty of Versailles · Congress of Vienna · annexation · throne · economic · veto · nuclear
- geopoliticsbipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship, buffer state
- political entitiesnation, state, country, kingdom, republic
- powerauthority, potency, energy, hydropower, horsepower
world powerclient state
Dependent nation under patronage
failed state · puppet state · regional power · satellite state · vassal state
world powermicrostate
Tiny country or particle configuration
tiny nation · city-state · Andorra · Liechtenstein · Monaco
world powervassal state
Subordinate territory owing allegiance
satellite state · colony · protectorate · occupied territory · puppet regime
power, world, worldwide, worldly, worlds, superpower, worldview, worldliness, great power