Most Americans think their country is in decline. So do their leaders. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have embraced foreign policies premised on the notion that the global order no longer serves American interests.
But these pessimistic assumptions are wrong, Fareed Zakaria argues in a new essay for Foreign Affairs. Moreover, they are leading the country to embrace strategies that will harm much of the world—and the United States most of all. Zakaria is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, on CNN, a columnist for The Washington Post, and the author of The Post-American World.
Sources:
“The Self-Doubting Superpower” by Fareed Zakaria
“The New China Scare” by Fareed Zakaria
“Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence” by Bonnie S. Glaser, Jessica Chen Weiss, and Thomas J. Christensen
“Washington’s New Trade Consensus” by Gordon H. Hanson
“The Lonely Superpower” by Samuel P. Huntington
“The U.S.—Decline or Renewal?” by Samuel P. Huntington
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