With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.
American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
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