It has become fashionable once again to proclaim America’s decline. Books herald a “post-American world” and the “end of the American era.” The question is no longer whether America is Rome but how best to manage our inevitable fall. Few of the international-relations pundits who prophesy the decline of America and the concomitant advancement of China, India, Russia, and regional bodies like the European Union appear worried about the prospect. Indeed, many seem downright pleased by “the rise of the rest.”
Recent events in the Central American nation of Honduras, however, put a dent in the grand theory of American decline.
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