al Moary Fund,World Economic Outlook Database,April2012(Washington,DC:IMF,2013).

[8] Jim O'Neill and Alessio Terzi,"Changing trade patterns,unchanging European and global governance,"Brussels,Bruegel Working Paper,February2014,p.3.

[9] See Peter Zeihan,The Accidental Superpower:The Next Generation of American Pre-eminence and the Coming Global Disorder(New York:Hachette,2014).

[10] Jonathan Kirshner,American Power After the Financial Crisis(Ithaca:Cornell University Press,2014),p.143.

[11] Michael Mandelbaum,The Case for Goliath(New York:Public Affairs,2005),p.226.

[12] Robert O.Keohane and Joseph S.Nye,"Between centralization and fragmentation:The club model of multilateral cooperation and problems of democratic legitimacy,"John F.Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University,Faculty Research Working Paper Series,RWP01-004(February2001).

[13] See J.S.Nye,"Maintaining the non-proliferation regime,"International Organization,Winter1981,pp.15-38.

[14] "Market value of the largest inter companies worldwide as of May2013,"Statista;available at:http://.statista.com/statistics/277483/market value-of-the-largest-inter-companies-worldwide/.Note:Yahoo and Yahoo-Japan have been treated as one entity for the purposes of company rankings.

[15] Jonathan Zittrain,"No Barack Obama isn't handing control of the inter over to China,"The New Republic224,March24,2014.

[16] Richard J.Danzig,Surviving on a Diet of Poisoned Fruit:Reducing the National Security Risks of America's Cyber Dependencies(Washington,DC:Center for New American Security,2014),p.25.

[17] Moises Naim,The End of Power(New York:Basic Books,2013),p.52.

[18] Quoted in Nathan Gardels,&qu