Era of global U.S. dominance reaching its end?

A new National Intelligence Estimate prepared for president-elect Barack Obama predicts an end to U.S. global dominance and the emergence of a "multipolar" economic world in the next twenty years.

The estimate also forecasts a worldwide economic restructuring of which the current global crisis is only a part, with countries such as China India, which operate under a "state capitalism" model, will share economic power with the United States, the estimate said.

Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, and conceivably Russia were also seen as gaining power.