Decline Of Primacy

The Future of the US: decline or primacy?

The United States of America has been a prime world-leading country since 1945, and the US has maintained its privileged position through military capability, political leadership, and economic influence. It has then established itself as a global primacy. The U.S. primacy brought crucial benefits, which other nation states are unlikely to attack or threaten the U.S. and American interests directly. In addition, the primacy has significantly contributed to a peaceful international environment. It gave the U.S. the ability to cooperate with other states in order to promote human rights and slow the spread of weapons worldwide (Mingst and Arreguin-Toft, 2011). During the Cold War, there were two superpowers
The U.S. has maintained its power and influenced in the world for a long history, and it established the fact that the U.S. is the most effective and powerful country in the world in every field of the international affairs such as politics, economy, and military. Its military expenditure is far greater than that of other states and is approximately 50% of the world military expenditure, even though the new emerging great powers like China try to achieve the U.S. military capability and have been investing their military (Lieber, 2011). Moreover, one of the rising powers, China, has drastically grown its economy and has expanded its production nationwide. Its products are, for example, available in any parts of the world, and people can buy them so easily. As a result, China acts as a leader of the Third World, insofar as other new great powers such as BRICs countries have been also developing gradually (Best et al, 2008). However, some international relations analysts argue that the emergence of the new great powers is not so fast enough to overcome the US primacy and cannot achieve the U.S. economically at this stage. The fact that China has been developing its economy so fast is not because China has gained a power to defeat the US economy, but because China has a huge population. Because of the huge population in China, its economy gets bigger.
China has been developing its economy and its impact is huge as China is considered as a leader of the Third World (Edelman, 2010). Other BRICs countries and non-state actors have also threatened the US primacy in terms of economy, attack, and invasion. Nonetheless, the U.S. primacy is stable and no other nation states can overcome this situation. It is because the U.S. has a great history as a world-leading country, and developed its connection with other nations. Unlike China, the U.S. has a lot of supporters and followers and thus it can enjoy its management function on a global scale (Mingst and Arruguin-Toft, 2011). The United States has concreted its leading role in the world through its history and it is considerably impossible that the U.S. could be replaced by any other countries. Although there is no possibility to measure the certain future world order, the U.S. would have kept its predominance in the world for many decades in the future because of the reasons stated above (Layne et al, 2012). If the U.S. would be in decline and the rising new great powers would gain more power, they cannot lead the world because there are other powerful nation states such as the United Kingdom, France, and so on. Therefore, world order remains as a U.S. primacy and will keep this situation for