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The Hollow Empire
I. The Unipolar Dream and Its Quiet Funeral
For a brief stretch at the end of the twentieth century, the world behaved as if history had made a final executive decision. American carrier groups moved across the oceans, American dollars flowed through every serious transaction, American software ran on the screens of rich and poor alike, and American stories about “leading the free world” provided the soundtrack. Even those who loathed the empire mostly argued about how to resist it, not whether it was real. There was one center; everything else was orbit. That was the unipolar moment.
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