Return of American Primacy: Is America winning the game of power politics?
In recent days, international politics has been all about who can control whom. This tendency of controlling one another is termed the “game of power politics” by political scientists. When countries like China and Russia have adopted Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and Hard Power Diplomacy respectively to win the race of being the sole hegemon, the US is actively playing soft power diplomacy and different other policies and is more likely to win the race of establishing global dominance. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has been the only hegemon. However, in the 2010s, the US lost a lot of its credibility as the only hegemon due to different internal and global political crises. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s war on oil have questioned the US's global political influence to a great extent. To bring back its long-lost hegemony, the US is prioritizing policies like Soft Power Diplomacy and Monroe Doctrine. America is being profoundly success...