The last days of American power

The last days of American power

In 1988, Samuel Huntington concluded that “the United States is not immortal and its preeminence is not inevitable”. His essay, “The US: Decline or Renewal”, articulated a powerful and prescient dissent against the widely held consensus at that time bemoaning the relative erosion of American power. Huntington was right then — but his final admonition has come to pass today. In fact, not only has the US lost its preeminence, it is just about finis