The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global DisorderNear the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U. S. Navy. With all the world's oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners. We think of this system as normal it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time. In