COVID-19

The Superpower Remover

COVID-19 could accelerate America’s decline as a superpower. But we are not powerless to avert the worst-case scenario.

Martin Skold served as a senior adviser and campaign manager to former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld's 2020 Republican presidential primary campaign, and a foreign policy assistant to Rep. Paul Ryan in 2011. He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of St. Andrews, where his dissertation focused on the strategy of great power competition. These are his own views.