Is Great Britain still a powerful country?
GB is not as powerful as they use to be after World War II. I believe they are ranked one of the top ten most powerful country. In the past, the term great power was mostly restricted to powers within Europe (see history above). Ever since the term was first academically used in 1815, numerous powers have rotated between the status of Great power, middle power and superpower. These are listed below. Major power shifts occurred in the aftermath of the First and Second World Wars. Both Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire collapsed after the first world war; after the second, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the only two superpowers. After the second world war, the European powers of the United Kingdom, France and Germany managed to rebuild their economies, and China had built up to Great power status during the post-war period, with large growths in economic and military power. Germany is considered by experts to be an economic power.[29][30], and by chancellor Angela
