Moving beyond Fareed Zakarias bestselling The Post-American World, veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin masterfully mixes fresh reportage with rigorous historical analysis to envision a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. The American Century has passed, argues Starobin, due in large part to Americas military overreach in the Middle East resurgent nationalism and economic expansion in Russia, China, and India the tarnished American model of unfettered free-market capitalism and the growth of transnational cultural, political, and economic institutions. Following an insightful analysis of Americas global ascendancy, Starobin explores five possible scenarios for the future an age of chaos like the one following the collapse of the Roman Empire a multipolar order of nations in which America would be one great power among others China becoming the dominant superpower an age of global city-states or a form of world government.
