"Beware of predictions about the end of the United States as a world power"

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, published in 1987, the historian sparked a heated debate on the future of the American superpower.

In this vast historical study, Paul Kennedy demonstrated how the great powers must, in order to remain so, succeed in balancing their economic wealth with their military power and their strategic commitments.

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- With the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, did we witness the beginning of the decline of the American superpower?

Paul KENNEDY.

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These are large and complex subjects and we must beware of hasty conclusions.

I have been struck in recent weeks by the confident tone of editorial writers and analysts about the end of the United States as a world power, or the decline of American power.

These judgments seem a little too definitive to me, and I prefer to stick to measured and relative comparisons.

Many of my colleagues who specialize in foreign policy and

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