There is growing recognition that the distribution of power in the international system is shifting to what political scientist Samuel Huntington (2005) has described as uni-multipolar. According to this perspective, while the United States continues to be the only superpower, other states are not easily dominated. U.S. involvement remains critical in addressing key international issues, but resolution of transnational problems also requires action by some combination of other major states. Yet the potential for great power rivalry is increased, as the great powers in Europe and Asia have begun to resist American hegemony, and there is a growing gap between the U.S. view of its own power and how other countries see that power (Brooks 2006). As diplomatic historian Paul Kennedy (2006) notes, there are growing limits on American domination: “The United States possesses the world’s single largest national economy but faces huge trade and budget deficits and economic rivalries from an equally large European Union and a fast-growing China. Its armed forces look colossal, but its obligations look even larger.” If some combination of U.S. imperial overstretch alongside rising economic and political influence by America’s chief challengers transforms the current distribution of global power, many scholars and policy makers predict that a multipolar global system with more than two dominant centers of power will emerge. In the context of Power Politics, what challenges are faced by US in global politics? Identify at least two of them.
There is growing recognition that the distribution of power in the international system is shifting to what political scientist Samuel Huntington (2005) has described as uni-multipolar. According to this perspective, while the United States continues to be the only superpower, other states are not easily dominated. U.S. involvement remains critical in addressing key international issues, but resolution of transnational problems also requires action by some combination of other major states. Yet the potential for great power rivalry is increased, as the great powers in Europe and Asia have begun to resist American hegemony, and there is a growing gap between the U.S. view of its own power and how other countries see that power (Brooks 2006).
As diplomatic historian Paul Kennedy (2006) notes, there are growing limits on American domination: “The United States possesses the world’s single largest national economy but faces huge trade and budget deficits and economic rivalries from an equally large European Union and a fast-growing China. Its armed forces look colossal, but its obligations look even larger.” If some combination of U.S. imperial overstretch alongside rising economic and political influence by America’s chief challengers transforms the current distribution of global power, many scholars and policy makers predict that a multipolar global system with more than two dominant centers of power will emerge.
In the context of Power Politics, what challenges are faced by US in global politics? Identify at least two of them.
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