More than 10 years ago, the columnist Charles Krauthammer asserted that American “decline is a choice,” and argued tendentiously that Barack Obama had chosen it. Yet looking back over the last decade, ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal hegemony.

A RECENT ESSAY in The New York Times Magazine has set off a big controversy. “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony,” by Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, is based on his ...

Members of the National Guard sleep in the halls of Capitol Hill as the House of Representatives convene to impeach President Donald Trump. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) EDITOR ...

Ukraine has about a month before it runs out of artillery shells, and the U.S. Congress cannot agree to ship more. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead. The slaughter in Gaza continues ...

Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, has highlighted crypto's potential in securing America's position in the future of the global financial system. "I think it's perhaps the future of ...

Columns reflect the opinions of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Editorial Board, The Daily Iowan, or other organizations in which the author may be involved. American hegemony is ...

U.S. hegemony is now as firm as or firmer than it has ever been, and will remain so for a long time to come. One widely held definition of a state is that a state is a body that successfully claims a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. President Barack Obama smile at the White House before Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images The ...

CAIRO, Egypt — As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the first Bush administration, Colin Powell glimpsed Middle East politics at the peak of American influence: The Cold War had ended, the ...