Half a Hegemon: America in the World Disorder
The American superpower is back in the saddle. Despite all that it could
straighten out the post-Cold War disorder, United Nations has proven too
unwieldy. Once again this century it has been up to America to wield its
unique might and prestige to stop old world enmities from engulfing Europe.
While American leadership is making the world safe for
tolerance and free markets abroad, however, the unfettered invisible hand
and the media-soaked permissive culture at home are unraveling the social
model that once stood behind America's global stature. Asian and European
elites who once admired American society as the future now reject its
laissez-faire formula as a recipe for social and moral chaos. America
in their eyes has become a half-a-hegemon, part big stick and part weak
reed.
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