On Shadi Hamid's 'The Case for American Power'

Today, the epistemological situation is murkier. Are we still the hegemon, or has the international system shifted to bipolarity? Has China in fact already eclipsed the United States in important metrics? Are our alliance system and existing international commitments a source of strength or weakness? Are we a fundamentally wealthy country with too much evidence of poverty, or a fundamentally poor one with an excess of billionaires? And so on.