After the Empire
 After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (French: Après L'Empire: essai sur la décomposition du système américain) is a 2001 book by Emmanuel Todd. Todd predicts the fall of the United States as the sole superpower.Todd examines the fundamental weaknesses of the US to conclude that contrary to American conventional wisdom America is fast losing its grip on the world stage in economic military and ideological terms.