Emerging Superpowers

Measures of Power

• Oil rich, manufacturing base, IT services, infrastructure, export processing zones, employment structure, tourism, global service hub, political maturity, political influence and innovative technology.
• Different countries display some of these characteristics and types of power.

Factors that Lead to Superpower Status

• Demographic ‘power’- market size and pool of skilled labour.
• Cultural power is a result of globalisation, shown by the USA.
• Political influence in international relations at the IMF, UN, WTO, G8 etc.
• Economic wealth and power, possibly a result of trade and the wealth this brings- related to trade blocs or TNCs.
• Power can also be seen as stemming from research and development, new technology, patents and royalties. Also, having resources other people want.
• Military power- naval and nuclear give a country a global reach.

Neo Colonialism

• Where a country controls other country overseas related to dependency theory.
• The core indirectly controls peripheral regions, although they are supposedly independent.

Ghana

• Gained independence from British rule in 1957, but have they got true freedom?
• GNP increased from $5.7 billion to $14.9.
• Still depends on decisions made by the world’s most wealthy nations.
• The best paid and managerial jobs were held by the British.
• Ghana’s crops and minerals were exported to British in a raw state, so Britain. processed them and added the value.