Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the Worldby Ian BremmerPortfolio, 2015, 240 pp., $27.95
In 1912, many people predicted that the United States would be one of the most powerful states in the 20th century. Its economy was strong and its potential seemingly limitless. But it would have been ludicrous to suggest that within a half-century it would be the dominant resident power in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East or that in less than a century it would be a unipolar power. After all, on the eve of World War I, German power was ascendant, Britain bestrode the …read more
Source: The American Interest
