Geostrategic Review: 15 most powerful countries 2014

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European Geostrategy release data each year showing the ranking of the world's most powerful countries.


But this is not power by just military means.

They have chosen four different categories – cultural pull, diplomatic influence, economic strength and military reach – with each divided into five subcategories, each weighted in relation to the others.


Their descriptions include:


  1. Super Power (100%-70% of the strongest country’s total power) – a country with systemic power within every continent, including a comprehensive global military footprint; a top-tier technological economy, massive diplomatic influence and enormous cultural pull;
  2. Global Power (69%-40% of the strongest country’s total power) – a country lacking the heft or comprehensive attributes of a superpower, but still with a wide international footprint and means to reach most geopolitical theatres, particularly the Middle East, South-East Asia, East Asia, Africa and South America;
  3. Regional Power (39%-15% of the strongest country’s total power) – a country lacking the comprehensive attributes of a superpower, or even the reach of a global power, but with a strong and highly concentrated regional footprint, perhaps extending to the nearest zones of adjacent continents;
  4. Local Power (14% or less of the strongest country’s total power) – a country with significant influence in its local vicinage, perhaps courted by superior powers due to its regional importance or reputation.


According to European Geostrategy, there is only one superpower in the world and only one global power in the world.

So here are the 14 most powerful countries in the world at the start of 2014:







Here are how the countries are ranked in each of the four categories:


.................................Economic Strength..Military Reach...Cultural Pull..Diplomatic Influence..Power..Relative Power
1 United States.......... 305.0%...............380.0%.........145.9%...............213.9%..................1044.8%.........100.0%
2 United Kingdom............85.2%..............142.4%........109.9%...............170.6%...................508.1%..........48.6%
3 France..................................63.9%...............126.1%..........63.1%................154.0%..................407.1%...........39.0%
4 China....................................112.2%.............88.7%............48.7%................143.0%.................392.6%............37.6%
5 Russia..................................21.9%...............117.7%..........26.4%.................151.0%.................317.0%...........30.3%
6 Japan...................................87.6%................30.5%...........45.1%.................45.9%...................209.1%............20.0%
7 Germany..............................64.5%................13.2%..........51.3%..................69.7%...................198.7%...........19.0%
8 Australia...............................36.9%...............11.5%..........79.5%..................56.1%...................184.0%...........17.6%
9 Canada................................33.9%................8.0%.............73.6%.................58.5%....................174.0%...........16.7%
10 India...................................25.1%................43.0%...........50.6%.................45.2%....................163.9%............15.7%
11 Italy....................................36.9%.................20.3%..........35.4%..................48.6%...................141.2%............13.5%
12 Spain..................................30.7%...............18.5%...........41.6%.................48.9%....................139.7%............13.4%
13 South Korea..................19.1%................11.9%...........38.3%.................38.4%.....................107.7%...........10.3%
14 Brazil..................................23.5%................9.8%.............29.7%.................42.1%.....................105.1%...........10.1%
15 Turkey................................8.9%...................7.8%.............28.2%.................35.7%......................80.6%..............7.7%


And if the EU were a country, here's how it would fare:


EU.................281.17%.......320.28%.......301.23%..........489.94%.............1392.62%.....133.29%


European Geostrategy’s ‘Audit of Major Powers’: the world’s fifteen most powerful countries in 2014 | European Geostrategy · Geopolitics from a European perspective
 
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Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England

Daniel Hannan is the author of 'How we Invented Freedom' (published in the US and Canada as 'Inventing Freedom: how the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World'). He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes the EU is making its peoples poorer, less democratic and less free and that Britain should withdraw from it.



Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South East England


Britain is not a small island: few countries have longer reach

By Daniel Hannan
January 17th, 2014
The Telegraph



We're not done yet


Britons in Brussels are frequently told, typically with a little smirk, about our national superiority complex. We are the way we are, we’re informed, because we haven’t got over the loss of empire. The reason we don’t appreciate the EU is not that we have constitutional, economic or democratic objections, but that we are peculiarly pleased with ourselves.

It’s one of the few national stereotypes allowed in today's Europe. Indeed, it is trotted out so frequently and so breezily that many Euro-politicians think it wholly uncontentious. To take only the most recent example, Erna Solberg, the prime minister of Norway, used it to warn Britain against leaving the EU. Now, as she very well knows, 80 per cent of her own countrymen oppose accession to the EU. But that, apparently, is different. Norwegians may be more pro-sovereignty than we are, but they're not burdened by what Ms Solberg calls an “old empire mind-set”. (It's viewed similarly from Brussels: Norway's refusal to join is taken as harmless eccentricity; British scepticism is attributed wholly to arrogance.)

Perhaps, if you’re reading this blog in Europe, you’ll think Ms Solberg's description of us unremarkable. But if you’re British, you’ll know that she has got us 180 degrees wrong. The Euro-friendly Janan Ganesh has deftly filleted what he calls "the most popular myth about the UK in foreign capitals: that it suffers from delusions of grandeur". As he put it in the FT a while ago:
The caricature of neurotic Britons hankering after global clout, and sometimes believing they still have it, is not just wrong. It is the opposite of the truth. If anything, the UK suffers from delusions of weakness. Its citizens habitually refer to their “small island”, which, at least by population size, ranks in the top decile of nations. You would not know from its parochial political culture that the UK has nuclear weapons, a permanent place on the UN Security Council, the ultimate global city as its capital and, according to an annual survey by Monocle magazine, more “soft power” than any other nation (even the US).
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No, you wouldn't. When the former US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, pointed out yesterday that we were at risk of losing our global military capacity, the Today programme characteristically fretted that we would no longer be able to “punch above our weight”.

Hmm. Given that we have the fourth largest military budget on the planet, I’d have thought that punching at our weight would be quite adequate, but try making that argument to a media-political class that has convinced itself that we are “a small offshore island” wholly dependent on either the American alliance or the EU or both. (We’re not even small in the geographical sense, by the way: Great Britain is the ninth largest island in the world; the UK has the sixth largest economy.)

Earlier this month, researchers tried to quantify the clout of various nations by a number of empirical measures: how many of the world’s top hundred universities did they have, did their intelligence services operate globally, did they have a first-class city and so on. They ranked the United States first and Britain second – well ahead of France, China and Russia.

Now you might disagree with their criteria but surely, by almost any reckoning, Britain is in the top five. Ours is the first ever global language. We have many international networks beyond the EU, including the G8, the Commonwealth and Nato. We export vodka to Poland and tea to China. We have produced more Nobel Laureates than every country except the United States.

My point is not that we’re a superpower. It's simply that we’re large enough to thrive as an independent state in the same way as, say, Switzerland (population 8 million). That this point even needs to be argued is proof of Janan's "delusions of weakness" shtick.

Ah, well. We'll recover our global vocation when we leave the EU. You'll see.


Britain is not a small island: few countries have longer reach – Telegraph Blogs
 
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One factor not considered is the zeitgeist of the peoples of these powers based on their respective political cultures. For example, America has the most powerful military on the planet, but that military can't be used effectively anywhere because of the political culture and zeitgeist of the American people.
 
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I think it hilarious..... that a country with five times our population is only twice as powerful.
 
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Blackleaf said:
I think it hilarious..... that a country with five times our population is only twice as powerful.
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What's even funnier is that you think the dead can be defamed, and you make patently false statements about English law, and that you run like a bunny when you get your a ss kicked.

I think you've earned a new nickname, Bunny.

Why don't you tell us again how nobody ever gets the better of you, Bunny?
 
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Yes, gone are the days when "Indiae Imperatrix" was engraved on British coins. Now "Mundi Imperator" is on American currency . But, everything passes..
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
What's even funnier is that you think the dead can be defamed, and you make patently false statements about English law, and that you run like a bunny when you get your a ss kicked.

I think you've earned a new nickname, Bunny.

Why don't you tell us again how nobody ever gets the better of you, Bunny?
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In English law you can be punished for making libellous comments about a dead if those comments are having a detrimental effect on that person's family. So I would be careful if I were you.

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What the table really shows is that by most measures the U.S. is in a class by itself and everybody else is last.
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It shows Britain in a class of its own, too. It's the only country in the "Global Power" class."

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BL - Must be a mistake- UK in number 2, not number 1. Who is the idiot that tallied the numbers. Clearly a dammed Yankee.



Pakistan????
List of countries by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pakistan 185,393,00022
United Kingdom 63,705,000
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You're no Carol Vorderman, are you?
 
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