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Does America still count in the world? Can the world still count on America? In raising such questions halfway into a series of systemic shocks that began in September 2001, Simon Serfaty, a long-time scholar of international politics, reminds Americans that their countrys well-being and that of the world are intertwined. Play it again, Sam: History is in a foul mood again, and this is no time to come home and leave behind an unfinished European Union facing the ghosts of a revanchist Russia still claiming the Old World as its own a strategic dark hole in the Greater Middle East, on the eve of a global Sarajevo moment and Chinas surging hegemonic power in a continent fraught with too much history and too little geography. Read more