The Peaceful Transition from British to American Hegemony

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Brendan Simms, Make Way for the New Boss. The world's dominant nation, as it weakens, often goes to war with its growing rival. In the 19th century, power transferred peaceably. Why?   Wall Street Journal, Dec 27, 2017.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rev ... hegemony-1514330535
(book review on Kori Schake, Safe Passage. The transition from British to American hegemony. Harvard University Press, 2017)

Note:
(a) "In the 1840s, the two powers clashed over the Oregon Territory. Britain, though stronger militarily, accepted a compromise that endures to this day in the US-Canadian border along the 49th parallel."

Oregon Country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Country
(Oregon Treaty of 1846; "Oregon was a distinctly American term for the region. The British used the term Columbia District instead [thanks to Columbia River]")

(b) "This closeness was confirmed by the Spanish-American War of 1898, when the Royal Navy supported the United States in a tense confrontation with the Kaiser’s ships in Manila Bay, where Germany appeared set to step into the role being vacated by Spain."
(i) Battle of Manila Bay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay
(May 1, 1898; was the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War [Apr 21 – Aug 13, 1898] )
(ii) Spanish-American War / War of Philippine Independence 1898 - 1901. University of Alberta, Canada, undated
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~vmitchel/fw4.html
(Having won Battle of Manila Bay, "The United States had not expressed an interest in taking over the remnants of Spain's colonial empire. On news of Dewey's victory, warships began arriving in Manila Bay from Britain, France, Japan and Germany. The German fleet of eight warships was especially aggressive and menacing. All of these imperial powers had recently obtained concessions from China for naval bases and designated commercial spheres of interest. American interests had reason to fear that leaving the Philippines to the designs of the imperial powers might exclude the United States from the Asia-Pacific trade altogether")

I have read just two more sources, and Germany did not seem to be aggressive after all.

(c) "While Ms Schake ends her story in 1945, she alludes to the tensions ahead, too, especially over the Suez Crisis of 1956, when Washington precipitated a run on the pound sterling to force Britain to withdraw from Egypt."

Suez Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
(Oct 29 - Nov 7, 1956; introduction and section 9.4 Financial pressure)