The Myth of Multipolarity: American Power’s Staying Power (Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth)
In the 1990s and the early years of this century, the United States’ global dominance could scarcely be questioned. No matter which metric of power one looked at, it showed a dramatic American lead. Never since the birth of the modern state system in the mid-seventeenth century had any country been so far ahead in …