This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject International relations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of International relations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.International relationsWikipedia:WikiProject International relationsTemplate:WikiProject International relationsInternational relations articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Anthropology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Anthropology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AnthropologyWikipedia:WikiProject AnthropologyTemplate:WikiProject AnthropologyAnthropology articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CultureWikipedia:WikiProject CultureTemplate:WikiProject Cultureculture articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Demographics, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.DemographicsWikipedia:WikiProject DemographicsTemplate:WikiProject DemographicsDemographics articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Economics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Economics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EconomicsWikipedia:WikiProject EconomicsTemplate:WikiProject EconomicsEconomics articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Futures studies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Futures studies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Futures studiesWikipedia:WikiProject Futures studiesTemplate:WikiProject Futures studiesfutures studies articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Historyhistory articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Sociology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sociology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SociologyWikipedia:WikiProject SociologyTemplate:WikiProject Sociologysociology articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Technology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TechnologyWikipedia:WikiProject TechnologyTemplate:WikiProject TechnologyTechnology articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Power in international relations, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Power in international relationsWikipedia:WikiProject Power in international relationsTemplate:WikiProject Power in international relationsPower in international relations articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Soviet Union, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Soviet UnionWikipedia:WikiProject Soviet UnionTemplate:WikiProject Soviet UnionSoviet Union articles
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Russia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of Russia on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.RussiaWikipedia:WikiProject RussiaTemplate:WikiProject RussiaRussia articles
The article was below here seems rather non-NPOV. Certaintly the Soviet Union has collapsed; the article suggests that the United States is about to do so as well, which would be very controversial (and in my view, and probably most other peoples, false). And I'm not aware of any "popular pressure for regime change" in the US. -- SJK
Is the person below trying to suggest that the United States was behind 9/11?
The two superpowers of the second half of the 20th century, the USSR and the USA underwent tremendous political change during the decades before and after the turn of the century (2000).
The changes in the USSR occurred most dramatically during the 1980s, with the most dramatic event being the destruction of the Berlin Wall, while the changes in the USA occurred during the 2000s, with notable events being the grassroots democratic protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in the Battle of Seattle in Dec 1999, and the crime against humanity which occurred on 11 September 2001 in New York and sparked off vast, irrational overreactions by the government leading to anger and popular pressure for regime change.
In both cases, improved communications and many-to-many networking technology combined with grassroots struggles for basic human rights in contributing to major political changes, which initially seemed minor, but in fact were very deep-rooted.
How about the fall of the British Empire? That's probably not considered a "superpower collapse", but it would be worth mentioning even so, since, technically, it was. -- Sam
Two problems with that, one, the term “collapse” suggests a sudden and complete breakdown of a superpower into a weakened country - the “collapse” of the British Empire and the dwindling influence of Great Britain as a superpower wasn’t atoll a collapse but instead slow and steadily decline over many years in absolute power it had as a world dominator, and two, the decline wasn’t unlimited due to the fact that the UK does still currently retain power of many overseas territories and also remains powerful in that it is both the sole/main regional power in Europe and a great power globally.
The USSR fits the “collapse” criteria well, but I don’t think the UK or the British Empire can be referred to have collapsed because of the long time it took to dissemble the empire and because of the UK’s ongoing military, economic and (still relatively) influential standing in the world - thus using “collapse” would not really be appropriate as the country has never really been on its knees.
The Mongol Empire (1206-1368) should be added as an ancient example of superpower collapse. It spanned the majority of Eurasia and was the largest contiguous land empire in history. -Artanisen (talk) 22:01, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
,_early_1900s,_Central_Africa,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo,_Pende_people,_wood,_fiber_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC08700.JPG){kind=small}
.svg){kind=small}
