ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on political liberation and economic redistribution as two ethical themes between the Third World and the superpowers. Ideological preferences are of course part and parcel of superpower ethics. Both countries needed to extend their territorial size earlier in their histories before they could acquire superpower credentials by the second half of the twentieth century. The beginning of superpower ethics is sheer size—for without a basic massive size; there can be no superpower status. The socialist superpower is the champion of the liberal cause of freedom and self-determination—with minimum participation in the more socialist mission of global economic redistribution. From an ethical point of view, one of the most disturbing things about the superpowers is that there are only two of them for the time being. Out of dualism has emerged the whole moral paradigm of evil at war with good.
