Would America let down the world In 2024? Looking at the disorder and chaos of  2023, it seems more than ever that American global leadership is indispensable. Nonetheless, every year commentators and pundits utter the same shibboleths that the post-World War II global system which the United States

built and sustained with its economic, military, and soft power is now breaking up amidst regional challenges, chaos, disorder, and strife; and not least the rise of China, its global ambitions, and its alliance with aggressive and authoritarian Russia under Vladimir Putin.