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Who Will Be the Next
Superpower?

The rise and fall of empires isn't a dry subject only for academics and historians-
especially when the next collapsing empire may be today's superpower, the United States.

by Melvin Rhodes

Jan. 22 marked exactly one century since the Victorian era ended with the death of Britain's Queen Victoria at Osborne House. At the time of her death Great Britain was the world's greatest power. Other countries, notably Germany and the United States, were catching up economically and militarily, but Britain was to remain the dominant power for the first four decades of the 20th century.

As the 19th century passed and the 20th began, nobody would have predicted the end of the British Empire. Some were already warning of Germany's rise as the queen's grandson, the kaiser, sat at her bedside in her final hours. Yet in less than two decades Kaiser William II's beloved Germany would lie in ruins, and he would be forced to abdicate his throne.

Few would have imagined that the United States, only recently breaking out of its isolation with its victory over Spain in the war of 1898, would emerge as the world's foremost power in the new century. Nobody expected Russia to break with history and tradition and embrace communism. Excited at the prospects of a progressive new century, few could have foreseen the awful dictatorships that would arise in the years to come.

A dramatic century was dawning. How dramatic it would prove to be staggers the mind.

Another dramatic century?

The beginning of a new century is an appropriate time to reflect on the world scene. Which nations could dominate the world in the years ahead? Will America remain the world's lone superpower, or will another emerge as the economic, military and political leader?

Bible prophecy offers some insight and strong indications that in this century the lineup of world powers will shift as dramatically as it did in the century just passed.

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn34/superpower.htm