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Government expenditure in the US is around 36 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), as compared to 41 per cent in Japan or 47 per cent in Sweden. (Photo: PTI)

Mihir S Sharma Mumbai

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Even if the United States’ (US’) economic and military power declines over the coming decades, its cultural power will not. This has often been the case with declining superpowers: Their footprint in the world of ideas and culture stays long after their economies lose their edge. The US was already a larger economy than Great Britain in the 1880s, but it took another 40 or 50 years — and the growth of Hollywood — for the US’ soft power to catch up. 
Soft power is not merely about films and music. One interesting way in which a superpower’s internal dynamics
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