0 a country that has very great political and military power -- 超级大国
Since the disintegration of the USSR, there has been only one superpower - the US 自从苏联解体后，世界上就只剩下了一个超级大国——美国。
External support, especially from the superpowers, was needed to lessen this isolation, and the policy of non-identification was designed to maximize external support.
One of the reasons why small state theory has fallen into neglect is that all states are small to the superpowers.
Subsequently, from 1948 until 1989, the superpower system preserved borders which make no sense on any reasonable construal of national 'self-determination'.
Two post-revisionist superpowers emerged to dominate the debate.
Central to bipolarity was the willingness of the two superpowers to devote extensive resources to foreign and security policy.
It provided a glimmer of hope that the superpowers' conflict was not destined to engulf the whole planet.
Using the same term to implicate a superpower is questionable, at best.
The flow of economic aid from the two superpowers was highly uneven.
