FLYNT LEVERETT: ..."As Americans, I think we also need to face up to the flip side of the
rise of the rest, which is to some degree a decline in American
standing and influence in various international arenas. I would argue
that the United States is in an historically unprecedented condition.
It emerged from the Cold War as this unquestioned global hegemon.
Now, not even two decades after the end of the Cold War, we have a situation in which the military
dimension of American hegemony… more
