My third-to-last column at WPR:
International relations experts are pretty much down on everything nowadays. America, we are told, is incapable of global leadership: too discredited overseas, too few resources back home, too little will -- period. For a brief moment there, while China held up the global economy during the recent financial crisis, much credence was given to the notion that we were on the verge of a Chinese century. But that popular vision has also waned surprisingly quickly, and now the conventional wisdom centers on China’s great weaknesses, challenges and overall brittleness. Amazingly, where we spoke of a U.S.-China “G-2” arrangement just a few short years ago, now there is a sense that no one is in charge.
Read the entire column at World Politics Review.
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 9:24AM 
Reader Comments (5)
Why third to last? I like these articles quite a bit. Will they be somewhere else in the future?
I applaud your insights on Bremmer's new book which seems like an early glimpse of "Great Powers:...and the World after Obama"
Also "...third-to-last column at WPR". I look forward what comes next!
Conventional wisdom isn't. It's dumb with a soupcon of stupid. ;)
"third-to-last column"? End of contract or a decision to concentrate elsewhere?
WPR is dumping me in favor of someone more reporter-like.
My activities lately have moved in the direction of the much more nakedly capitalistic (deal-making), so my attention here naturally wanes.
I have an established pattern of changing course every 7 or so years:
--> Harvard 1984-1990 (New England)
--> CNA from 1990-1998 (Mid Atlantic)
--> War College from 1998-2005 (New England)
--> Start Ups 2005-2012 (Indiana)
I am due for some big changes, to include a move. My midlife crisis (why miss anything in life?) will see me cheat on my career - not my wife or kids.