What is America's standing in the world?

With the war in Iraq, crisis in Afghanistan and international economic woes, many Americans are asking, "Just what is our place in the world today?". Indeed America's place in the world has never been in question as much as it is today.

A Fellowship study released today has hard data to assuage some of these concerns: America is in the same place it has been for the last century. Just north of Mexico, and south of Canada. In relation to other countries, the United States is in roughly the same position as it was during our study last year, adjusting for an almost negligible amount of continental drift.