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The United States still likes to see itself as the only superpower left but its citizens no longer want it to act like an international leader.
As a result, the rhetoric of superpower is still there but the substance is fading rapidly away.
Arrogance of power and blindness about reality were the two main causes for the decline of the sole remaining superpower.
That changed when the US bombing against the Taliban began; doubts over the wisdom of the US campaign combined with resentment at seeing a super-modern superpower pound away at a medieval country devastated by decades of war.
This extremely stable world order has come to an end as a result of the internal disintegration of one superpower.
That was in 1991, when the Soviet Union’s collapse had left the US as the world’s only superpower.
Moreover, the Middle East’s role in the global geopolitics of energy will grow in the coming decades, making it difficult to see how a superpower like the US could simply walk away from the region.
As I wrote three years ago, in analytical terms, it makes little sense to include Russia, a former superpower, with the developing economies.
Indeed, in the 1830’s, two Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Custine, went to the outskirts of civilization to describe the future superpower rivals, America and Russia.
Revolution in a VacuumMADRID – The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back.
Nor can it afford to alienate its largest trading partner, a neighbor and an emerging global superpower, which is known to be prickly over any presumed slights to its sovereignty over Tibet.
As long as the Soviet Union was a rival, America had to be a superpower -- protecting allies, intervening against hostile encroachments -- the leader of the West.
Superpower status requires a superpower mentality.
Only rivalry with another superpower can generate these.
After all, the era of superpower rivalry and hence of superpowers is over.
So the world must now ponder that old Latin maxim qui tacet consentere videtur – silence means consent – and ask itself if it is wise to quietly consent to Putin’s construction of a lawless energy superpower.
On the top board are military relations among states, with the US the world’s only superpower with global reach.
But the global economic crisis has weakened Russia’s oil economy, shattering the KGB’s dreams of a return to superpower status.
It exaggerated the weakness of America, which remains the world’s only superpower.
As the economist Arvind Subramanian has put it, “GDP and size matter in crude superpower terms.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
And we’ve got about 5 or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet regimes – Syria, Iran (sic), Iraq – before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us.”
For a few days at least, India’s emergence as a superpower on par with China was taken as a fait accompli.
The paradox of American power is that the world’s only military superpower cannot protect its citizens by acting alone.
The US is the only superpower, but preponderance is not empire or hegemony.
Second, most non-nuclear states were happy enough to live under the security umbrella provided by the superpower nuclear duopoly.
Given the huge obstacles – technological, economic, and political – to acquiring nuclear weapons, states must have quite specific reasons for wanting to go nuclear, such as the need for security against a regional threat or a perception that a superpower itself threatens the state’s political independence.
On that day, the United States ceased to be the world’s leading superpower – the flawed but ultimately well-meaning guarantor of peace, prosperity, and human rights around the world.
And, as Joseph Nye has written, Russia is a superpower in decline, while China and (less markedly) the others are on the rise.
China’s Education RevolutionBEIJING – Over the last 35 years, China’s strong and sustained output growth – averaging more than 9.5% annually – has driven the miraculous transformation of a rural, command economy into a global economic superpower.
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