The Eight Great Powers of 2017

by Jack Le Moine

From the latest happenings in things historical. This article The Eight Great Powers of 2017 was published 11 days ago in The American Interest. The article’s author is Walter Russell Mead and Sean Keeley.

This article identifies the eight most powerful countries in the world and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. They are (in order of their power rankings):

1. United States
2. China
3. Japan
4. Russia
5. Germany
6. India
7. Iran
8. Israel

Read the article and then see if you agree with this list or not.