title: Balancing American power. (c2014)
abstract: Global political, economic and security dynamics are in flux. The purported decline of America, along with the ascension of Russia and Chinaamong other emerging economiesis altering the rules of the international system. The theme of American decline and the rise of China and Russia as possible threats to American hegemony is a topic laden with much heated debates. America's tendency to overstretch its military and economic expansion beyond its national borders, along with the rise of dynamic an