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Critically examine the decline of the United States of America as a hegemon and its implications for the changing international political order.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Declinism is old: Paul Kennedy's "imperial overstretch" (1987) foretold it before the Soviet collapse, and Joseph S. Nye counts several false alarms since Sputnik (Is the American Century Over?, 2015). The verdict turns on what is said to decline. Hegemony is leadership others accept; unipolarity is a distribution of capabilities. They have moved at different…

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  • The case for decline
  • The critique: decline of what?
  • Implications for the international order
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