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    When a superpower decides it no longer wants the job

    Oct 22, 2019 3 minutes

    The upheaval and terrible violence in Syria are just one sign. The same thing is happening elsewhere: not only in the Middle East, but as far afield as Eastern Europe and East Asia.

    We are seeing the beginnings of an answer to a question with potentially critical implications: What happens when a superpower decides it no longer wants to be a superpower?

    The United States remains the world’s preeminent economic and military power. Only one other country, China, harbors realistic ambitions to displace it from

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