End of U.S. hegemony to accelerate under Trump: Columbia historian

Mark Mazower sees chance to move past hypocrisy of world living by West's rules

"Even if the U.S. is not challenged soon as the world's most powerful economy, most powerful military, it does not play the role that it played in the past," Columbia University historian Mark Mazower said. (Photo by Yuta Saito)

YUTA SAITO, Nikkei staff writer

January 3, 2025 22:36 JST

NEW YORK -- As electoral failures and international conflicts underscore the fragility and weakening leadership of democracies, "we're seeing the end of U.S. hegemony," which will be accelerated under President-elect Donald Trump, Columbia University history professor Mark Mazower told Nikkei.

Edited excerpts from the interview follow.