"counterpower" meaning in English

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          "text": "In the hands of the few power can be called oppression, repression, exploitation or authoritarianism. Meanwhile movements for freedom, emancipation, liberation, human rights and democracy have a common idea at their heart. That idea is Counterpower.",
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          "ref": "2005, Christian Barry, Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge, Global institutions and responsibilities: achieving global justice, page 182:",
          "text": "A fifth step must be taken if the project of empire is to be defeated — namely, the emergence of effective counterpowers within the world community, able to balance the superpower of the United States...",
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          "word": "contre-pouvoir"
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          "word": "contropotere"
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