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The Case for America's Continued Superpower Status

Author(s) -

Dennis Shiraev,

Grant Gibson

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

cornell international affairs review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2156-0536

pISSN - 2156-0528

DOI - 10.37513/ciar.v2i2.366

Subject(s) - superpower , ideology , political science , state (computer science) , development economics , political economy , attractiveness , china , law , economics , politics , psychology , algorithm , computer science , psychoanalysis

Is America really in decline as a global superpower? We examine current arguments for America’s economic decline and argue that a purely economic analysis is insufficient for evaluating a country’s status as a global superpower. Our comprehensive definition of superpower incorporates military strength, internal stability, and the global attractiveness of a state’s culture and ideology that it presents to the rest of the world. America is the only state fitting of this comprehensive definition of a superpower in the 21st century, while all other states frequently cited as emerging global powers fail to meet the criteria we lay out in this paper.

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