For now, don't waste time staring at the PPP snapshots, as kneaded and pummeled by the World Bank. They reflect the price of Big Macs, not III: innovation, ingenuity and invention.

China’s rise need not entail America’s fall. How ‘declinism’ distracts us from contemplating a much more complicated future.

The leader of the world’s only superpower just ‘wants to be alone.’

Joffe discusses the long tradition of American declinism, drawing heavily form his recent book, <em>The Myth of America’s Decline</em>.

Joffe talks about his book, <em>The Myth of America’s Decline</em>.

The problem is not in the geographical shifting, but in the rhetoric and behavior of the last 6 years. These indicate retraction as well as unwillingness to use force, except in microscopic doses.

Joffe on American exceptionalism, why Europeans hate Israel, and why China may not be the next superpower.

Why did Vladimir Putin thumb his nose at the U.S. in the Snowden affair? Because he could.

Prophesying doom for America is a hearty perennial with many uses. A fifth wave of declinism in as many decades is now rising.

The false prophecy of America’s decline.

Most don't understand why the United States is the global superpower.

A review of Peter Zeihan’s <em>The Accidental Superpower</em>.

Zeihan discusses Stratfor’s predictions for the decade—among them, Stratfor’s break from the conventional wisdom that the U.S. is a power in terminal decline.

The United States has about 15,000 miles of waterways, and that is more than the rest of the world combined. Add to that the fact that serious challenges to the United States are literally an ocean away and the fact that the U.S. has discovered that it can be ruled by monkeys and do just fine.

Zeihan explains why the global system has not only been dominated by the United States, but is going to remain that way for some time.