Is America a 'failing state'? How a superpower has been brought to the brink
- Written by George Rennie, Lecturer in Politics, University of Melbourne
AAP/EPA/Albert HalimAfter the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme endpoint.
Today, the US is not dominant, it is in crisis: convulsed by riots and protest, riven by a virus that has galloped away from those charged with overseeing it, and heading into a presidential...
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