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Article: The dispensable nation?(The Realist)(United States)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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WE ARE still slow to recognize how revolutionary the changes sweeping the globe are. The forces unleashed by globalization are as important to determining the shape of the coming age as industrialization was two hundred years ago.
Will the United States remain the "indispensable nation" in global affairs under these new conditions? It depends on what you mean by the term.
There is one form of American indispensability that, thus far, no other power or bloc has demonstrated--not the Chinese, not the Europeans--the ability to mobilize the world community to undertake the great projects of the day. We, the United States, act as the catalyst. Yes, it is ...