fastchanging

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It might well be that certain of our basic institutions are not functioning as they should in today's fastchanging environment, but in view of their impressive record of past success, I think it is essential that we first ascertain why this is so before we undertake radical -- and perhaps unneeded surgery.

Keys to Canada's Future 1977
Not only would that be presumptuous — and immediately contested; but it would distort what the original message of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (at least pertaining to the United States today) was all about: that it is in a period of relative decline compared with 1945, which is part natural, part self-induced; that if some worrying trends continue, it "runs the risk of imperial overstretch"; that the Soviet Union's plight is much worse; and that American leaders need to readjust to a fastchanging global environment.

What to Do about Decline? Nye, Joseph S. 1989