Who will succeed the USA as the Dominant World Power?

Question

Not speculating its not going to happen any time soon, but before any of you americans leap to the defense there is no way of denieing the posability of it changing, look through history, the roman empire, the Mongal Empire the British empire, during the raignes of these major empires (empires that actually had greater world power than the USA does now) people would have thought for example at the time of the british empire and the roman empire, it was so powerfull there is no possable way of it collapsing, but like every great empire before them they fell.

I know the world is different now but the USA has more than its fair share of enemys and thanks to its ego it is also disliked amungest its close allied like the UK esepecially and its commonwealth. so which do you think.

If it was me i would say the Europian Union, it has a ruling goverment, a higher economy than the USA all it lacks is its own army, who do you think?

Answer 1

I think that the US will stay the dominant world power until it joins up with another world power, possibly all of North America as one economic powerhouse, or America and Europe, or something like that, I don't believe that any of the countries that exist today have the government and the resources to rival the US... But to answer your question as simply as possible the E.U will probably become the largest economic powerhouse shortly... Or the Muslim world if they can pull themselves together... I don't see that happening any time soon though...

Answer 2

People fail to realize the United States is still the 3rd largest country in the world. The US Government isnt just going to stand by and allow its status to be taken over. As bad as that sounds, why have we gone through the great lengths we have to ensure strong alliances. The American debt is not nearly significant as other countries debt when compared to there GDP. Nothing comes close to the US Military, even China's military doesn't even compare to the American Military.

We have the ability to influence our intrests abroad, and will always continue to use that power.

Secondly the EU has about 100 Million more people but when compared to the US our Defense Budget is still almost twice the size and Americans are still bringing in more money.

The US will always be a big player in the world, Russia has gone through huge changes and still has a tremendous amount of power. We are the current top dogs, without a whole lot of competition. We will fight to stay in that position.

Answer 3

Maybe we will become a polycentric world again, like we were in the Early Modern era (1500-1800).  The EU may be dominant, but China may beat them to it  

Answer 4

It has already happened.  The New World Order will not include the USA.  

Answer 5

If the EU combined to create a super-state it's army would be huge. Try adding all the troop numbers of all EU members together. It's a truly big wow.

That'll never happen in a million years though. China, definitely.

Answer 6

1)China

2)India

3)Russia

4)UAE

5)EU

That's about it.

Answer 7

The EU is a pansy union that has no backbone to become a world power.

If anything, it will be China or Russia.  And then the US will put them in their place.

Answer 8

China. They will surpass the size of our economy within ten years. Right now, we owe them too much money. Money we couldn't pay if we suddenly had to.

Answer 9

I would have to go with China.  Since the world seems willing to appease the Muslim Fanatics they also will be a major power in the future controlling a large part of the world which is now non-Muslim.  Because of the Muslim religion they will never be a strong economic power like China.  If they have any smarts they will leave China alone.

Forget about the European Union the Muslims will control that

Answer 10

Obamanation!

Answer 11

i think we are already outsourcing that to China

Answer 12

China