But with the superpower nuclear competition over, the U.S. has all the novel warheads it needs.

Yet with major disarmament treaties on the horizon, the Reagan Administration appears to be more willing to shift the superpower competition from military to political and economic concerns.

Nor will either man abandon the superpower competition for global influence and position.

He favored a hawkish approach to the Cold War, especially in the Third World arena of superpower competition.

This grows partly out of the painful American experience in Vietnam and the resulting desire to avoid the kind of superpower competition that magnifies regional conflicts.

Religious and territorial rivalries may have been at the heart of the conflict, but superpower competition encouraged both sides to pursue military rather than diplomatic strategies.

Vietnam could be the first American victory in this new superpower competition.

If Soviet stagnation continues, a dangerous superpower competition, good for neither side, is almost certain.

After this point, proxy battles in the Third World became an important arena of superpower competition.

In the heart of the Middle East, there was superpower competition for influence in Egypt.