Reddit reviews After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium

> There are absolutely no indicators that US hegemony is in decline. In fact, every indicator is that the US is more powerful today than ever. Only whiny types like Chomsky seriously suggest American power is fading in favor of China.

You're joking right? Like, that's sarcasm?

• This dude wrote a book about the decline of the US imperial power in the face of Iraq
  
• Fareed Zakaria wrote a book in detail describing the modern decline of US hegemony
  
• Jeffrey Garten wrote an article about the decline of US hegemony:
  Is American Decline Inevitable?
  World Policy Journal
  Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1987/1988) (pp. 151-174)
  
• Michael Cox wrote an article about "the failing american empire":
  Is the United States in Decline -- Again? An Essay
  International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-)
  Vol. 83, No. 4 (Jul., 2007) (pp. 643-653)
  
• Paul MacDonald and Joseph Parent wrote an article about possible retrenchment strategies to delay the inevitable american decline of hegemony:
  Graceful Decline? The Surprising Success of Great Power Retrenchment
  International Security
  Vol. 35, No. 4 (SPRING 2011) (pp. 7-44)
  
• Timothy McKeown wrote an article about the likely future decline of US policy in the wake of the Cold War - academics predicted an end to the American Empire even before it had begun:
  The Foreign Policy of a Declining Power
  International Organization
  Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring, 1991) (pp. 257-279)
  
  Here are some more articles on the subject:
  
  
  
• This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana
  Christopher Layne
  International Studies Quarterly (2012)
  Vol. 56, 203–213
  
• Hegemony, Liberalism and Global Order: What Space for Would-Be Great Powers?
  Andrew Hurrell
  International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs), Vol. 82, No. 1,
  Perspectives on Emerging Would-Be Great Powers (Jan., 2006), pp. 1-19
  
• After Pax Americana: Benign Power, Regional Integration, and the Sources of a StableMultipolarity
  Charles A. Kupchan
  International Security, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 40-79
  
• Hegemonic overreach vs. imperial overstretch
  Dennis Florig
  Review of International Studies (2010), 36, 1103–1119
  
  Some html friendly articles:
  
  
  
• A review of Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition
  
• The Decline of US Helmed Global Hegemony: the Emergence of a More Equitable Pattern of International Relations?
  
• The Decline of U.S. Hegemony: Regaining International Consent
  
• Visions: America after Hegemony
  And here's a really good forum thread on the very subject of US hegemonic decline
  
  
  I just wrote my thesis on this subject, so I have some sources..
  The theme of all these articles varies, some are about the future, some are explanatory, but the overarching theme is that the US is definitely in decline. Academia is mostly over the hump debating whether or not the US is actually in decline, and is now focused on what we can do about it to make transitions smoother.
  China has been growing tremendously faster than any other state on the globe the past few decades. At this rate, China will overtake the US in terms of gross product by (most estimates) about halfway through the mid-21st century. The reality is that in many ways, there are more economic opportunities in China than the United States - that's why many expats like the ones in this subreddit are there. As /u/hittintheairplane pointed out, it's not so much that the US is declining from it's 1990 level of economic, political, and military power as much as all the other nations are catching up. Relatively the United States is losing power, and that's all power is, relativity to others. You take any international relations course and invariably the topics include the structure of the 21st century, most professors would describe it as a shift from unipolarity to bipolarity in that while China is growing the fastest, there is no real contender to overtake the US and replace our hegemony. Rather, we're more likely to see a state structure of power like this than the bipolar political forces of the Cold War or the unipolar political power the US has today.