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This title examines the roughly 200 strategic rivalries, two states that view each other as threatening competitors to the point that they categorize their antagonists as enemies, that have been responsible for nearly 80 percent of the warfare of the past two hundred years.

Strategic rivalries (World politics) --- History. --- International relations --- History

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Une guerre dévastatrice vient d'éclater au cœur de l'Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du passé ; des menaces de cataclysme nucléaire sont constamment agitées, alors qu'on les croyait définitivement écartées ; un bras de fer planétaire se déroule, opposant l'Occident à la Chine et à la Russie... Il est clair qu'un bouleversement majeur est en train de se produire, qui affecte déjà notre mode de vie, et qui remet en cause les fondements mêmes de notre civilisation. Chacun en a conscience, mais personne encore n'a contemplé cette crise avec la profondeur de champ qu'elle mérite.Comment en est-on arrivé là ? Amin Maalouf remonte, dans ce livre, aux origines de ce nouvel affrontement entre l'Occident et ses adversaires, en retraçant l'itinéraire de quatre grandes nations : d'abord le Japon de l'ère Meiji, qui fut le premier pays d'Asie à défier la suprématie des nations « blanches », et dont la modernisation accélérée fascina l'humanité entière, notamment les autres pays d'Orient, qui tous rêvèrent de l'imiter ; puis la Russie soviétique, qui constitua, pendant trois-quarts de siècle, une formidable menace pour l'Occident, son système et ses valeurs, avant de s'effondrer ; ensuite la Chine, qui représente en ce vingt-et-unième siècle, par son développement économique, par son poids démographique et par l'idéologie de ses dirigeants, le principal défi à la suprématie de l'Occident ; et enfin les Etats-Unis, qui ont tenu tête à chacun des trois « challengers », et qui sont devenus, au fil des guerres, le chef suprême de l'Occident et la première superpuissance planétaire.L'ensemble de ces récits constitue une grande fresque historique qui éclaire, comme on ne l'avait jamais vu jusqu'ici, les enjeux des conflits en cours, les motivations des protagonistes, et les étranges paradoxes de notre époque.En exergue du livre, l'auteur cite cette parole si pertinente de Faulkner : « Le passé ne meurt jamais. Il ne faut même pas le croire passé. »

GREAT POWERS --- GREAT POWERS--HISTORY --- STRATEGIC RIVALRIES--WORLD POLITICS --- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS --- HISTORY --- Since 1868

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Researchers from RAND Corporation develop a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, involving proactive campaigns to delay, degrade, or deny an adversary's ability to achieve core interests through its preferred strategies. This research provides a clear framework, grounded in concrete historical examples, for how strategic disruption campaigns can create the time, space, and opportunity for strategic gains across diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power. For the special operations community, this research provides a rubric for how future campaigns can disrupt nation-state competitors' efforts to win without fighting, particularly when potentially escalatory options rooted in conventional deterrence are ill-suited or infeasible to achieve similar disruptive effects.

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- Strategic rivalries (World politics) --- Irregular warfare. --- Special forces (Military science) --- Strategy.

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Nations rise and fall, succeed or fail in rivalries, and enjoy stability or descend into chaos because of a complex web of factors that affect competitive advantage. One critical component is the package of essential social characteristics of a nation. The ultimate story of the Cold War is that the United States was simply a more competitive society than the Soviet Union: more energetic, more vibrant, more innovative, more productive, more legitimate. Through analysis of comparative studies of historical eras and trends, historical case studies, and the findings of issue-specific empirical research, the report explores how seven characteristics of a society determine its competitive standing and distinguish dynamic and competitively successful nations. If the history surveyed in this report provides an accurate guide to the future, the fate of the United States in today's rivalries will not be determined solely, or even in significant degree, by the numbers of its weapons or amounts of defense spending or how many proxy wars it wins but by the basic characteristics of its society. The author applies the seven leading characteristics that affect national standing to the United States to create a snapshot of where the country stands. That application provides some reason for optimism. The United States continues to reflect many of these characteristics, and the overall synergistic engine, more than any other large country in the world. However, multiple trends are working to weaken traditional U.S. advantages. Several, such as the corruption of the national information space, pose acute risks to the long-term dynamism and competitiveness of the nation, raising the worrying prospect that the United States has begun to display classic patterns of a major power on the far side of its dynamic and vital curve.

National characteristics, American. --- Competition, International --- Great powers. --- Strategic rivalries (World politics) --- Social aspects --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Social aspects.

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"This anthology continues the discussion and analysis begun in the acclaimed 2017 Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia: Is the Next Global Conflict Imminent? Similarly, Great Power Competition brings together distinguished nationally and internationally known scholars in their respective areas to discuss how emerging global and regional powers are trying to expand their influences in different regions of the world. The scholars, who bring a combination of academic and first-hand practical expertise, examine how the actions of adversaries have challenged the US national security and defense strategies, especially in the changing homeland security landscape in light of COVID-19 and recent societal unrest. Based on careful review of global and regional literature and thorough analysis, the research by this group of knowledgeable authors indicates that America's position cannot be taken for granted. The world is approaching a very sensitive historical juncture with multiple regional and global conflicting interests. The emerging situation raises several questions: how will the global security architecture be structured in the next five to ten years, what role will the United States play in that environment, and, finally, will we witness another major global conflict, possibly one disastrous for mankind?"--

Great powers. --- Military policy. --- Strategic rivalries (World politics) --- International relations and culture. --- United States --- Russia (Federation) --- United States. --- Foreign relations.