December 27, 2011
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For the students of international affairs, the notion of power realignment is an old one.[1] When it really happens, the erstwhile great powers, or even the superpowers, are likely to encounter pleasant or unpleasant surprises. The year 1991 was one such occasion, when the communist superpower imploded, thereby freeing a number of nations of Eastern/Central Europe and Eurasia, triggering a series of rounds of NATO “enlargement,” and, most importantly, creating a “unipolar moment.” The United States remained the only superpower. The period between 2008 and 2011 is both unique and somewhat similar to that of 1991. It is similar in the sense that it is also bringing about the decline of the United States. It is unique in the sense that, unlike the rather quick implosion of the Soviet Union, America’s decline is a long and drawn out process and potentially reversible. (more…)
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