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Hyperpower
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Polarity (international relations).
American primacy
The term hyperpower has been used by some political scientists and historians to describe an uncontested superpower, although the use of the concept is inconsistent. French foreign minister Hubert Védrine coined the term in 1999 to describe what he saw as the historically-unparalleled influence and might held by the United States after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.