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I completely agree with Wallerstein’s theory that US’s hegemony is in decline. The author discusses four important aspects of this decline: “the war in Vietnam, the revolutions of 1968, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the terrorist attacks of September 2001”. As the author points out in his article, nowadays no one fears the power of US and very few are the countries that respect the US – most of the European countries disagree with the position that US takes in the world – they get involved too much and too often in other countries’ businesses. In the past few years the repulsion towards this policy grew exponentially. Probably the first question that needs to be answered is “How did US become the world’s greatest power?” It is my belief that this was pure luck in the sense that the Atlantic Ocean separates the States from Europe and it also separated it from all the wars then went on in the last century. For the other world powers, the Soviet Union and Germany, would have been enormously difficult had they try to attack and eventually conquer America. No country could interfere in any way with United States, so it grew very powerful and very big in a relative short period of time. The “Pearl Harbor