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The Future of Great Power Competition: Trajectories, Transitions, and Prospects for Catastrophic War Thomas F. Lynch III Summary: The dominant geostrategic framework of international relations today is that of a Great Power Competition (GPC) among three rivalrous, globally dominant states: the United States, Russia, and China. After more than two decades of mainly cooperation and collaboration, they drifted into de facto competition at the end of the 2000s. By the middle of the 2010s, their undeclared but obvious rivalry intensified. Fully acknowledged GPC arrived in late 2017 when the United States published its National Security Strategy and declared a formal end to the 25-year era of U.S.-led globalization and active American democratization initiatives. APA citation: Lynch, T. F., III. (2024). The future of Great Power Competition: Trajectories, transitions, and prospects for catastrophic war. Joint Force Quarterly, 114 (2), 8–23. https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/joint-force-quarterly/vol114/iss2/4/ Competing for Advantage: The Chinese Communist Party, Statecraft, and Special Operations Samuel Barkin, Justin Conrad, Shale Horowitz, Min Ye, Lawrence Reardon, Will Irwin, Stephen Craft, & Charles Black with D. Ellis (Ed.) Summary: This edited volume highlights key challenges the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faces in its rise and contextualizes the potential contributions of special operations to compete for advantage based on the CCP’s interests and vulnerabilities. Competing for advantage means accruing power and influence in such a way that the adversary’s plans cannot be realized. This volume focuses primarily on appreciating the CCP’s worldview, interests, and politics while promoting a strategic
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