What is a Revivalist?

Revivalists argued that the revival of American power in the future was likely. According to them, the United States continued to enjoy certain advantages, such as the power of ideas, financial flows, and mass communications that will allow it to exercise global leadership in the future. From this perspective, a decline in relative American power may actually translate into an overall increase in America’s position in the world community if the nation’s’ economy is strengthened. By the turn of 21st century, with the collapse of Soviet Union, revivalists had prevailed. Moreover, some of the nation’s’ most notable commentators and scholars even began to use the term “empire” to refer to the U.S. position in the early twenty-first century. The United States remains the most powerful single actor on the global stage; it is the only complete superpower and its military and economic might are still quite formidable. The U.S. economy is also petroleum based and increasingly dependent on the importation of oil from around the world. Joseph Nye (2011), American interdependence has dramatically increased the “vulnerability” and “sensitivity” of American power.

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