----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Monroe" <idoru345 at yahoo.com>
Realizing such an outcome would depend, in no small way, upon American elites' acceptance of the need for managed relative decline into more or less 'normal' nation status instead of the wrenching unilateralism and deadly vainglory we're now seeing being played out.
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Heck if the 'free traders' from Kindleberger [now, alas 'objectively immortal'-Whitehead] to Bhagwati are right, the US becoming 'just another country' wouldn't be declinism at all. It would be a positive good. The question is whether the elites are prepared to ditch the last 50 years of IR and IPE that's come out of the dominant academic-policy wonk networks to do it.
Ian