Something Worse than Liberal Hegemony
by Matt Johnson
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On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Economist published an essay entitled “How America wasted its unipolar moment.” It was a familiar story in a popular genre of geopolitical analysis: a eulogy for the end of the American century. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the argument goes, the United States no longer had a powerful rival to check its ambitions—a development that led to arrogance and overreach.
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