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Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union acted as great powers and referred to themselves as “superpowers in keeping with the enormous destructive capacity of their nuclear weapons and the global scope of their national interests” (Griffiths, O’Callaghan, and Roach, 2008:134). During this period, “politics in almost every region of the world were deeply influenced by the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States” (Mearsheimer, 2001:5).