Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET December 2018 Political Science
Who among the following was the first thinker to use the term 'superpower'?
AHans J. Morgenthau
BWilliam Fox ✓ Correct
CE.H. Carr
DRobert Cox
Correct answer: (B) William Fox — The first thinker to use the term superpower was William Fox.
Explanation
★The first thinker to use the term superpower was William Fox.
★Fox, an American foreign-policy professor, introduced it in his 1944 book 'The Super-Powers'.
★He used it to describe states able to project decisive power across the globe.
★Fox identified three superpowers of the time: the United States, the Soviet Union and the British Empire.
★After the Second World War the term came to mean the United States and the Soviet Union.
★Hans Morgenthau founded classical realism but did not coin this term.
★E.H. Carr and Robert Cox are IR theorists associated with realism and critical theory respectively.
★The idea of the superpower is central to the study of Cold War bipolarity.
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