During the Cold War, the two superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, which nation is the potential next “superpower”?

Historian Niall Ferguson argues that London, rather than Paris,

emerged as the epicenter of world capitalism in the eighteenth century because: a. it had better access to major sea routes. b. England was a protestant country with a strong protestant ethic while France was Catholic. c. England had more coal and iron ore needed for industrial development. d. England had rules more supportive of markets.

That states are artificially created and have too much power is a view shared by

a. global and natural primacists. b. state and global primacists. c. paternalistic and cultural primacists. d. state and paternalistic primacists. e. global and cultural primacists.