Great power Articles

A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

Empire Falls

Robert A. Pape | Jan 22, 2009
The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

A User's Guide to the Century

Jeffrey D. Sachs | Jul 02, 2008
Jeffrey Sachs explains why the new world order of the twenty-first century is crisis-prone.

Symposium: Great Powers in Wonderland

Harry Harding
Ali Ansari
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
David Shambaugh
Deepa Ollapally
Richard J. Samuels
Riordan Roett
Evelyn Goh
Hanns W. Maull
Henry R. Nau
| Feb 29, 2008
Whither American hegemony? A glimpse of the multipolar world to come.

Israel and Arab Democracy

Aluf Benn | Jun 01, 2005
George W. Bush believes that democracy in the Arab world is the key to security. All in due time, says Ariel Sharon.

Taba Mythchief

David Makovsky | Mar 01, 2003
The "near miss" at Taba is being widely promoted as the natural starting point for future Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy. The only problem, is there was no "near miss."

The Unipolar Moment Revisited

Charles Krauthammer | Dec 01, 2002
As the "unipolar moment" stretches out into an era, its opportunities and vulnerabilities both come clearer a dozen years after its conceptual coinage.

Getting Hegemony Right

G. John Ikenberry | Mar 01, 2001
If it is to avoid global resentment and ward off potentially hostile coalitions, the United States must continue to ensure that others have a stake in its hegemonic system.

Franz Josef Clinton

Adam Garfinkle | Mar 01, 1999
Without realizing it, the United States is taking over the role of the Habsburg Empire in the Balkans, a role that it is ill-equipped to play.

Asia Tomorrow, Gray and Male

Nicholas Eberstadt | Sep 01, 1998
Barring the contingency of utter catastrophe, we can already estimate, often in surprising detail, what lies in store for East Asia in demographic terms over the next fifteen to twenty years.

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