Reestablishing America's Global Power

With the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as a hegemonic power with total political, military, and economic strength unequal by any other nation. The attack of September 11th propelled the US into twenty years of perpetual conflict across the Middle East, but especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the US was consumed with the global war on terror, other nations, such as Russia and China, began to assert their influence in challenging the United States wit...