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And in his criticism of the United States and its policies, there is more than a touch of the continental European view -- often articulated by the French -- that the "hyperpower" of the United States, with its enormous wealth and capacities, is often unconscious and unheeding of the dignity and interests of other nations.
Robert Badinter, a senator and former president of the constitutional council, wrote in Le Monde that the changes were "a lost occasion, not for the Socialists, but for the republic," adding, "Our institutions suffer from a profound wound: the hyperpower of the president".
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In 1991, after seven decades, it suddenly disintegrated and disappeared, leaving the United States -- the "sole superpower," even the "hyperpower," on planet Earth -- surprised but triumphant.
Yet a president who understands, as Mr Bush did not, that America is not the uncontested hyperpower of the 1990s one who values "soft power" more than the hard version will be a change for the better.
You can draw a direct line from the hyperpower manifesto of the Project for the New American Century, which the neocons, abetted by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, used to prod an insecure and uninformed president into invading Iraq — a wildly misguided attempt to intimidate Arabs through the shock of overwhelming force.
JUST a decade ago, a short season in the ebb and flow of global influence, economics was in thrall to the Washington consensus and geopolitics was a wholly owned subsidiary of the hyperpower run out of the White House.
Foreign pundits sound even more bearish, and one sometimes detects a hint of gloating at the hyperpower's distress.
And clearly France, as a member of the G7 group of rich countries, holder of a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and possessor of nuclear weapons, has a leading place in this better world.Are those cards good enough to trump the hyperpower, one which is inherently suspicious of any multilateralism it does not control?
America became the "hyperpower" and presided over an unprecedented expansion of globalisation.These days America is acting less like a hegemon.
But according to his deputy, Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães, who is the foreign ministry's chief ideologue, Brazil must "react to the political initiatives...of the hyperpower" by "promoting political alliances with the states of the periphery".That has led Brazil to stress relations with countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, with meagre results.
And he troubles those waters because he has a vision of the world that does indeed involve curbing the hyperpower.
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