Journal 31 – Does America rule the world?

Niall Ferguson, 41, is one of the most remarkable professors of Harvard and Oxford Universities in England. He considers that in the second half of the twentieth century two empires, the USA and the Soviet Union, watched the global order. When the Soviet Union collapsed, 1991, the USA has taken off from its duties. Right now, the came into existence a big problem because the world is going to chaos.
Dr. Fergusson considers that America is a colossus which has a real economic and military power. But America doesn’t put its potential into practice. Americans prefer to consume their goods, than to rule the world. America is the first power in the world history, which doesn’t want to act its own duties through there exists such necessity.
It is a paradoxical situation, because the world persuades America in order to not fulfill its role. The American participation in the world global product was 10% in 1980; it reached 30% in 2000. An American global product is 8 times bigger than Chinese and 30 times bigger than Russian.
I only presented Ferguson’s point of view regarding an American role in the contemporary world. I think that Ferguson is right. A agree with him that America doesn’t rule the world, but I believe that it helps one.
Prof. Niall Ferguson expressed his opinion in the interview a Polish journalist. The interview was published in the Polish weekly “Polityka” (August, 2005). Here, I expressed only the main ideas from Ferguson’s interview. I am interested in learning the author’s outlooks more deeply. I will encourage my friends to do it, too.