If the united states is no longer global super power what nation will take its place?

Question

I believe it would be China or one of the European nations?

Answer 1

The US will be the superpower for as long as we live.  The other countries may think they could be but come one, would you want to be governed by any one of them?  NO.  

My second choice would be Israel.

Answer 2

China and India will soon be 1 & 2, and unless our attitudes change as a whole, will will not be higher than 3 ever again.

Answer 3

China would be my first guess

Answer 4

First China

Second India

These are on superior power.U.S.A is no more that powerful

Answer 5

China

Answer 6

Katzy's comment about Israel is interesting since it appears that they have the World's fastest-growing economy and the Shekel is the World's strongest currency.

Maybe Moses was right after all!

Answer 7

actually USA is not the super power!! israel is!! and USA is just a tool.

but as what happenes in the world nowadays china is going to be the super power even if nothing happened to USA, because its not about weapons or any the millitary or alliances you have. it just about the money,economy and the mass production power you have.

Answer 8

As the world stands today, it would probably be China. The main drawback the Chinese have is the lack of ability to project limited power in the world. While they have nuclear weapons, as the U.S. has discovered, many times those are too much power for a give situation. China has a limited ability to "put boots on the ground" outside of it's bordering states.

Answer 9

Dont assume any nation or nations will.

In political science they talk about different ways the world can be organized.  You can have a "Uni-polar" system with one single dominant superpower, and lots of other smaller nations.  This is how Europe and the Middle East was organized under Rome, or how the Middle East was during the Persian empire, or how the world was between the fall of the Berlin wall in 89 and the September 11th Attack. Most of East Asian history is the story of a Uni-polar world with China as the dominant regional power, and all the other smaller powers hanging on around the edges.

Between about 1956 (the Suez Incident, when it was made clear that the USA was now the dominant western power and the UK and France were not) and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 89 the World worked off a "Bi-Polar" system...which does not mean that everyone was crazy, but that there were two main superpowers...the USA and the USSR, and the smaller nations of the world fell into one of the two camps.  It was like the two poles of a magnet, hence the name "bi-polar".

For most of human history we have worked off of a "Multi-Polar" system...where there are several large powers, all more or less equal, and they each have their own little collection of smaller states.  If you look at European History you see this, with France being an important European Power, and (depending on the time period)  Spain, Austria, or Germany being the other strong European power, and with England and Russia (and sometimes Sweeden) sitting at the edge playing "Ballance of Power" games.   Ballance of Power is when    a country shifts alliances in order to keep any one side from becoming the single dominant power. The Thirty Years War in Europe has a great example of this... The Catholic (Spain/Austria) side and the Protestant (German/Sweedish) side were more or less equal in power, but when it looked like the Protestant side was about to loose big time, Catholic France, under the Catholic Cardinal Riechelu joined the PROTESTANT side...because France knew that if Spain won, they would be so powerful that nobody else (including France) could have stood up to them and all of Europe would have fallen under the domination of the Spanish/Austrian alliance.

So the colapse of the US doesn't mean that someone else will become the dominant power. It is a lot more likely that we will move from a Uni-Polar world to a Multi-polar world, with several strong nations (USA, Russia, EU, China, India, perhaps even Austrailia, and likely Brazil) each of which will be the dominant power in its region, and each of which will play the other powers off against each other as it's own interests direct.

Answer 10

china with its nuclear program

Answer 11

Probably europe as China is an overall poor country and it's population density is the only reason it has remained a superpower.

Answer 12

China - be concerned about the future of human rights.