WPR Feature: A Divided 'Rest' Leaves America the Enduring Superpower
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 12:01AM
Reports of the imminent death of U.S. hegemony in world affairs go at least as far back as the Nixon administration, and to date, they have all disappointed. While challengers have risen and fallen, none have managed to make themselves full-spectrum superpowers capable of both diplomatic leadership and global military reach, in combination with indisputable economic heft and soft-power appeal.
Now, with the "rise of the rest" -- concentrated in, but not limited to, the so-called BRIC package of Brazil, Russia, India and China -- we are presented with the argument of a collective challenge to American world leadership. Let me count down 10 good reasons why that notion will likewise prove disappointing.
Read the rest of the feature article (posted 7/13) at World Politics Review.
Reader Comments (4)
Congratulations, one of your best strategic articles in some time. Great clarity & insight.
I sense another book emerging which could strengthen our rather current flaccid foreign policy.
I would love to read it, but now according to what I see on my monitor, I must pay $99 dollars to do so. Hopefully you will be able to free up this article sometime in the future, as you have with your Esquire pieces.
No Michal, that won't be happening. I've got to earn a living and WPR needs their publication to succeed in order to pay me.
Nonetheless, hopefully we can read it sometime in the future.
I feel like reading something on the other end of the spectrum to Zakaria's post-American book would be nice. Of course, everyone has to earn a living.