China Strikes Back: Great Power Rivalry Has Come To The Middle East
The Middle East’s reemergence as an arena of great power competition between the United States and China is mainly reflected in the technological innovation field. Read More Here
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The Beginning Of History
The prospect of a timeless future has given way to visions of no future at all. Ideology remains a fault line in geopolitics, market globalisation is fragmenting, and great-power conflict has become increasingly likely. Read More Here
What Makes A Power Great
Nations do not prevail in enduring competitions chiefly by acquiring superior technological or military capabilities or even by imposing their will in every crisis or war. Read More Here
With Great-Power Crisis Comes Great-Power Opportunity
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and the responses of the United States and China—has generated the first great-power crisis in decades. Read More Here
The Coming Anarchy In Outer Space
We have entered a new space era, projecting all the Earth’s great power pathologies—ambition, fear, and greed—into the heavens. Read More Here
How Great Powers Should Compete
Both China and the West espouse some version of multilateralism. But unfettered strategic competition, together with relentlessly negative rhetoric, precludes effective multilateralism, not least by disrupting trade and technology transfer – a crucial driver of development. Read More Here
The U.S. Must Prepare For Great-Power Competition Once Again
Unlike the Cold War, where victory meant the implosion of the Soviet empire, this round of competition will be won when America as a thriving nation-state whose highest priority is the safety and welfare of its people is restored. Read More Here
Biden’s First Foreign Policy Speech: A Preview Of Mistakes To Come?
In the age of great-power competition, where the world doesn’t simply do what the United States asks, action must match rhetoric. Arguably, action matters even more than words, because America’s competitors don’t care what it has to say. Read Here | The National Interest
The Return Of Great-Power War
Tensions persist among today’s great powers—above all the United States and China—and any number of flash points could trigger a conflict between them. These two countries are on a collision course fuelled by the dynamics of a power transition and their competition for status and prestige, and without a change in direction, war between them […]
All Great-Power Politics Is Local
The history of a number of major powers suggests that domestic policies were far more critical to their international standing than any of the clever stratagems, initiatives, ploys, schemes, or interventions they undertook abroad. Indeed, in some cases doing the right thing at home made it possible for the country to survive and recover after […]
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