Ezra Klein argues that a "world in which global growth slows so much that countries with three or four times our population never surpass the United States’s economic output is a world in which much is going wrong." Walter Russell Mead nods:
American power is committed to the concept that international relations is not a zero-sum game; it is about hunting for global win-win solutions. Many observers try to assess American power as if we were playing a zero-sum game in which every ounce of Indian, Chinese or Brazilian wealth or power somehow detracts from the United States.The failure to recognize this basic truth about American power is why so many analysts—basically going back to the 1940s—have so persistently prophesied American decline, even as the U.S.-backed international system has gone from strength to strength.
The Dish 