Waving Goodbye to Hegemony: No More Superpower

What follows here is an excellent treatise on the new world order. No more superpower for the US. We are heading toward a triumvirate of power: the USA, the European Union, and China.

Parag Khanna, senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation introduces his essay on the new world order this way:

"Just a few years ago, America's hold on globalpower seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while we've been in Iraq [emphasis mine]-- and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a second world." Khanna goes on to say:

Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it’s 1999. Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone or with allies and what kind of world America should lead. Democrats believe they can hit a reset button, and Republicans believe muscular moralism is the way to go. It’s as if the first decade of the 21st century didn’t happen — and almost as if history itself doesn’t happen. But the distribution of power in the world has fundamentally altered over the two presidential terms of George W. Bush, both because of his policies and, more significant, despite them. Maybe the best way to understand how quickly history happens is to look just a bit ahead.

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