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Will America exist in one hundred years?

That is a very good question, with no single verifiable answer. Superpowers, however,would they be Russia, France, China or the USA, plan their policies for the long term. In some high circles, that question has a very definitive answer, but it is left to us to speculate, look in the deep recesses of past nation-building experiences, and try to make sense of the fog that covers the future.

In a historical retrospect, America is still a very young country. There are many other nations that have survived for much longer than the United States, encountered challenges of different, harsher historical eras and are still around to attest to their longevity and success. America was born out of thirteen British colonies, and its identity as a sovereign nation is still in development. It is in these early stages that a nation sets down its base for political, economic and cultural development later on.

I will attempt an analysis of current geopolitical, historical, demographic and economic settings, and how they might change in the future, in order to prove that America will be around in the next century, while using Karl Marx's claim that economics are the engine of history.

In the present times, America is enjoying a leading world position. Strategically, it is isolated from major theaters of strife, and has developed extensive means to combat threats directly, from militaristic to diplomatic ways of resolving issues in the world. Whether those resolutions are just to the rest of the world is a different, albeit a related issue.

Up until the end of the Cold War, we lived in a bipolar world, where the balance of power was divided among two nations, rich in resources, and each possessing enough power to literally destroy the world several times over. There is a debate that the world then was more secure, enemies taking the form of countries, rather than shapeless global terrorist organizations. In those days, America was in an ideological confrontation against communism, and promoted itself as a beacon for freedom and peace. On the other hand, the Soviet Union did the same, and each party correspondingly did their best to tarnish the image of the other .

With the vacuum of power created by the USSR's collapse, America faces a different geopolitical situation. Emergent superpowers in the face of China, India and the Russian Federation, vie for influence in determining world affairs, where the United States once had the final word. Examples

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