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Over the past half-century the United States enjoyed extraordinary success, growth, and influence. While this triumphalist moment is over, this paper argues that by reframing and reorienting its grand strategy toward democratic internationalism, the United States has its best shot to extend the "American century". In order to make such a strategy successful, the United States will need to better address festering and chronic domestic fiscal, equity, and institutional problems; acknowledge its own shortcomings and their sources; and recognize – and even copy – the innovations and advances of others.