as being powerful and having

as being powerful and having influence—and are treated accordingly. Today, the United States, China, and Russia fit this Great Power description. However, the triangular Great Power structure is not durable.5 One of these Great Powers could decline precipitously and fall from status, thereby altering the structure of global power distribution from three Great Powers to two or even one. Alternatively, another state might amass power capabilities of sufficient quantity and quality to cross the threshold and become a Great Power. ufabet