Internal Challenges to the US Power Structure and Phases of its Decline

The changing trends of international politics show that political, economic, cultural and technological capabilities of the great powers are affected by global trends such as technology, communication, identity and power. This paper considers internal signs of the US power decline. Thus, the paper discusses issues such as sub-cultures, immigration, social movements, environmental challenges and inter-structural conflicts. These indicators show that interior structure of the US political system is losing its ability to reproduce itself. They can also be understood as incremental decline of the US power.