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@ Brookings Podcast: The Myth of American Decline

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While pundits fret over the possible decline of the United States as a world power, Senior Fellow Robert Kagan says those concerns are overblown. In his new book, The World America Made, Kagan writes that America’s military and economic power remains strong and no nation – even China – is poised to overtake it.