{"id":622,"date":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=622"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:47:31","slug":"chapter-22-us-decline-in-a-globalized-world","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-22-us-decline-in-a-globalized-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 22: US Decline in a Globalized World?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 22: US Decline in a Globalized World?<\/h1>\n\n\n
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In the middle of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the United States, due to the combined effects of military overreach and economic disaster was categorized by some observers as being caught in an irreversible spiral of decline. The attacks on 11 September 2001 had fundamentally changed the American outlook on national and international security. The problems facing America went deeper, though, than Iraq and the \u2019war on terror\u2019. Terrorism and the American inability to rein in opposition in Iraq and Afghanistan were merely symptoms of the relative ineffectiveness of traditional forms of military power. Meanwhile the defiance of North Korea and Iran was a reminder of the relative impotence of diplomatic and economic sanctions in the modern world and the ability of countries, even small ones, to maintain an independent course even in a globalized world. Given the failures in foreign policy and deadlock at home, particularly profound during the presidency of Donald J. Trump (2017\u201321), the world\u2019s leading democracy seemed to be on an unstoppable path of decline. Yet in 2022\u201323, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, America\u2019s role as the major defender of the liberal international order was again highlighted. While it is obvious that the United States is not an omnipotent superpower capable of effecting major change at will, it is equally clear that America remains a significant influence in a world that has been \u2013 and continues to be \u2013 profoundly transformed by the overall impact of globalization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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