Strategic Visions

Norbert Csizmadia

Chapter 11 in Geofusion:Mapping of the 21st Century, 2020, pp 128-136 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Robert Kagan is less optimistic about the unchallengeable American hegemony. He also focuses on the geopolitical aspects of the world’s future, mainly from an American perspective.86 According to Kagan, the domestic economic, financial and social problems may lead — although not necessarily — to America’s decline. He believes that the current world order created by the US based on democracy and political and economic liberalism is a unique system in humanity’s history that is worth preserving. However, this requires continued active leadership from the US. Either the decline of the US, or its withdrawal or isolation due to its domestic problems, would lead to a multipolar world revolving around competing superpowers, where autocratic states would be strengthened, and economic cooperation would be replaced by rivalries and increasingly common conflicts…

Keywords: Globalization; Geopolitics; Geoeconomics; International Economics; Urban Research; Futures Studies; Futurism; Liveable Cities; Global Networks; Future Cities; World Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F6 P25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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