Thread: "Just because we all it a World Series, doesn't make it one."

Here's an interesting article from Fareed Zacharia about the post American world:

“This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else,” I note at the very outset. I am optimistic about America, convinced that it can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet. But I argue that the age of American unipolarity — which began with the collapse of the Soviet Union — has ended. For a quarter-century after the collapse of communism, the United States dominated the world with no real political or economic competitors. Its ideas and its model — the Washington consensus — became received wisdom everywhere.
Today we are in a different era.

He goes on to say that other nations--China, India, Turkey, Brazil--have simply become more successful, more democratic, and therefore more robust in their foreign policy. America will be first among a number of rough equals, rather than hegemon. That requires a different strategy. We can't pretend that we'll dominate the world forever, just because we have done so for a generation.