Franitida utmaningar för USA: s utrikespolitik: USA som utrikespolitisk aktör 2021.

The United States faces several challenges to its future foreign policy. One concerns the role that the United States should play in future international affairs. Will the political leadership choose to continue with a global, assertive foreign and security policy, or will the country's future international engagements be clearly more limited. A second challenge isthegrowth of China, and the factthat Beijing threatens the power position of the United States in several arenas. One of these arenas is the South China Sea, wheretheterritorial claimspursued by China are notaccepted by Washington. A third challenge is in international economics where the growth of China's economic poweralso threatens the power position of the United States. A fourth challenge toa continuing global foreign policy role for the country, isthat the domestic political struggles inside the country have now reached sucha level of severitythat thesystem's basic democratic foundations may be threatened if the leading members of the two political parties are unable to agree on the very fundamentals of democratic rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]