Inrecentyears，especiallysincetheTrumpadministration，prospectsofarupturewithintheAmericanpoliticalsystemhavegainedrenewedattentioninbothacademicandpopularliteratures.Whatwasoncerelegatedtospeculativefictionhas-undertheweightofmountingpolarization，economicdivergence，institutionalfatigue，andshiftinginternationalrelations-becomealegitimateifnot(un)comfortabletopicofanalysis.
Thisvolumeattemptsathoughtexperiment:toexploretheplausiblepathwaysbywhichafederalunioncoulddisintegrateintoalooseralliancecomprisedofvariousautonomousregions.Thisprojectdoesnotindulgeinsensationalistscenarios，butratherdrawsuponobservabletrendsandextrapolatesfromhistoricalprecedents-particularlythatoftheSovietUnion-thoughinthiscase，thedynamicsaremarkedlydifferent.
Insum，Ihopetoofferameasuredaccountofhowaformerlyhegemonicnuclear-armedstatecould，underspecificconditions，graduallycomeapart.Whileth
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