Most discussions of US decline in global politics couch their arguments and evidence in the most contemporary context. But the US follows a global lineage that
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts t
In February 1941, Henry Luce announced the arrival of “The American Century.” But that century—extending from World War II to the recent economic collapse
The United States today is the most powerful nation in the world, perhaps even stronger than Rome was during its heyday. It is likely to remain the world's pree
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the Unit