How to deal with the American goliath

Just over 10 years ago, a tremendously distinguished professor of history at Yale University shocked the rest of the inhabitants of the most powerful nation on the planet. He warned that the American Empire was destined to follow the same trajectory as the imperiums of Rome, Persia, Charlemagne, Spain, Britain and every other empire on which the sun eventually set. In his bestselling Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy forecast that the coming challenge for American leaders would be managing relative economic decline and the diminution of military might.