Is the American century coming to an end?

Central to world politics today is whether the United States can retain the global leadership it held without a rival, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the last quarter of a century, the fragmentation of power is an international phenomenon: more and more influential, non-state actors are emerging, and this has a huge impact on the development of military, economic, political, and so-called soft power. And with the strengthening of China, the question inevitably arises: are we witnessing a change of power on a historic scale? Is the global dominance of the United States declining in absolute or only relative terms? Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the best-known researchers in international relations, seeks to answer these questions by listing in this volume the capabilities, opportunities, and prospects of both the new centers of power and the United States in each dimension of power, unspoken. polemized with adherents of American "decline theory."