The end of America’s global dominance
Donald Trump is talking about the 'Gulf of America' but in reality the US is nowhere near as powerful as it once was.
Robert D Kaplan
Robert D Kaplan is the author most recently of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, which will be published in January. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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