Preserving Primacy

The next US president will inherit a security environment in which the United States con-fronts mounting threats with increasingly constrained resources, diminished stature, and growing uncertainty both at home and abroad over its willingness to protect its friends and its interests. Revisionist powers in Europe, the western Pacific, and the Persian Gulf - three regions long considered by both Democratic and Republican administrations to be vital to US national security - are seeking to overturn the rules-based international order.

"Preserving Primacy" is from the September/October 2016 issue of Foreign Affairs.

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