The Race with No Finish Line: Assessing the Strategy of Regional Great Power Competition

Abstract

The Race with No Finish Line offers a framework for understanding the strategies of states engaged in competition for regional hegemony. Employing insights drawn from business strategy, the author argues for an essentially asymmetric understanding of fundamental policy goals for states engaged in competition for control of a region of the globe, with one state attempting to maintain a dominant position and another attempting, by focusing limited resources, to supplant it.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 05, 2023
Accession Number
AD1209713

Entities

People

  • Martin Skold

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Naval Warfare
  • Neuropsychology
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Recreation
  • Treaties
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design