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Article: Is America really in decline?(Foreign Affairs)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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IS THE PRESENT ERA, as has so often been predicted incorrectly in the past, the beginning of the decline of American power and the final stages of the American century, as it was dubbed in 1941 by Henry Booth Luce, the publisher of Time and Life? Are we about to see a series of events that would, undoubtedly to the great delight of the Left, especially the "born again" European Left, humiliate the Great Hegemon?
Before analysing the earliest critiques of America, what kind of beast are we talking about? We must consider briefly the etiology of America and the essential qualities of this then new, precarious and revolutionary late-eighteenth-century republic. From ...