otect themselves and their interests
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4R. Aron, Peace and War (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), 54 57.
5D. Vital, The Survival of Small States (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), 5.
4against any other power.6 It is also held that a super power is one "over which the joint military efforts of all non super powers would be unable to achieve a military victory . . . ."7 By either definition, the number of super powers will be neces sarily limited.
Designating great powers according to their possession of nuclear weapons, however, became unsatisfactory in the 1980s, when states such as Israel and India were widely believed to possess some quantities of such weapons, and such states as Brazil, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, and the Republic of South Africa (RSA) were believed to possess the capacity to develop nuclear weapons, if, indeed, they
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