Emerging power Emerging power An emerging power or rising power is a term used as recognition of the rising, primarily influence of a nation—or union of nations—which has steadily increased their presence in global affairs. Such a power aspires to have a more powerful position or role in international relations, either regionally or globally, and possess sufficient resources and levels of development that such goals are potentially achievable. A term also used to describe such a state is "rising power". Rising powers such as China and India may also be viewed as coincidental to the perceived decline of American hegemony in world
Is Religion Dangerous? way, and substitute rhetoric for analysis". He suggests that it is impossible to give a satisfactory universal definition of religion, and that early opponents of religion such as Edward Taylor, James Frazer and Émile Durkheim were indulging in "scholarly fantazising" about forms of primitive religion which were refuted by more rigorous studies such as "Theories of Primitive Religion" by Evans-Pritchard. "Unfortunately some writers have not yet realised this", such as Daniel Dennett in "Breaking the Spell", who "does not seem to realise that the spell was broken as long ago as 1884 when E. B. Tylor was appointed to a