““Here's a strange world. It's not post-American, in the sense that the countries that were supposed to have "emerged" by now are mired in their own unhappiness. Does any serious person still think—as the serious people at the Economist did back in 2008—that Brazil is the economic superpower of the future? Or that Turkey is on the cusp of neo-Ottoman splendor, a point argued by former U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns as recently as 2012? Or that the European Union is the world's de facto second superpower? Or that the Chinese economy is going to power right through a burst housing bubble?””
