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The United States: From the Unipolar Moment to Relative Hegemony

The ‘unipolar era’ is over but there is no clear evidence of American decline. In fact, it is the spectacular rise of China which allows us to declare the end of the American unipolar domination.

Andrei A. Iserov

Pax Americana: Desperate Tactics in the Absence of Strategy

Pax Americana, now intensively and rashly upheld and mismanaged by Trump, is reactive and non-sustainable. It requires submission of the will of IR actors and world resources to maintain a degenerate and dying empire.

Middle Powers Revisited: “Good Citizens” of the World Majority

The world’s sharp division into center and periphery is shrinking. More actors will build a new international order than ever before. This means that middle powers will come to the fore.

Nikolai Yu. Silaev

End of Superpower Monopoly Can Be Good For America

It would be a mistake to bet against America even as its unipolar margin of error declines. For one, the country is in far better shape than Europe and will likely liberalize energy production after the Biden administration ends.

Christian Whiton

A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis: Fading Red Lines

Relations between Russia and the U.S. have been degrading steadily, but even the Ukraine crisis has not yet become the equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis.

Ivan A. Safranchuk