Economic interdependence does promote shared interests, but it also creates shared vulnerabilities. … In an adversial context, shared interests provi… - Charles A. Kupchan

As a matter of urgency, America needs to begin to prepare itself and the rest of the world for this uncertain future. To wait until American dominance is already gone would be to squander the enormous opportunity that comes with primacy. America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so. This is the central challenge of The End of the American Era.

Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age.

For better or worse, the struggle against terror may well intensify, rather than ameliorate, unilateralist and isolationist instincts.