Publisher and editor of Die Zeit , a weekly German newspaper; author of Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America and The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies; senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University
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