This article argues that while China is the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony, a conflict with Iran—sparked by Israeli escalation or miscalculation—could fatally weaken the American-led world order. Drawing on the Thucydides Trap and Mearsheimer’s theory of power, it demonstrates how U.S. demographic decline, deindustrialization,

This article argues that while China is the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony, a conflict with Iran—sparked by Israeli escalation or miscalculation—could fatally weaken the American-led world order. Drawing on the Thucydides Trap and Mearsheimer’s theory of power, it demonstrates how U.S. demographic decline, deindustrialization,

This article argues that while China is the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony, a conflict with Iran—sparked by Israeli escalation or miscalculation—could fatally weaken the American-led world order. Drawing on the Thucydides Trap and Mearsheimer’s theory of power, it demonstrates how U.S. demographic decline, deindustrialization,

This article argues that while China is the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony, a conflict with Iran—sparked by Israeli escalation or miscalculation—could fatally weaken the American-led world order. Drawing on the Thucydides Trap and Mearsheimer’s theory of power, it demonstrates how U.S. demographic decline, deindustrialization,