The Return of Great Power Rivalry is the latest book authored by Dr. Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council.

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America declares the return of great power rivalry with Russia and China to be the foremost threat to US security and economic well being. Further, many analysts predict that America’s autocratic rivals will have at least some success in disrupting and, in the longer term, possibly even displacing U.S. global leadership. The Return of Great Power Rivalry argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. By advancing a “hard-power” argument for democracy, Kroenig demonstrates that despite its many problems, the U.S. is better positioned to maintain a global leadership role than either Russia or China.

Public Event Tue, March 31, 2020 • 9:30 am ET

The Return of Great Power Rivalry: A virtual panel discussion

ONLINE EVENT – A virtual discussion of great power competition between the US, Russia, and China, and a consideration of themes from Dr. Matthew Kroenig’s new book, The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the US and China.
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Global strategy 2021: An allied strategy for China

Working together, likeminded allies and partners can once again advance their interests and values, and the broader rules-based system, and fend off the twenty-first-century challenge posed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Great Power Competition

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series Jul 7, 2020

A global strategy for shaping the post-COVID-19 world

By Jeffrey Cimmino, Rebecca Katz, Matthew Kroenig, Josh Lipsky, Barry Pavel

The COVID-19 pandemic is an acute public health and economic crisis that is further destabilizing an already weakened rules-based international system. With cooperation, determination, and resolve, however, the United States and its allies can recover from the crisis and revitalize an adapted rules-based system to bring about decades of future freedom, peace, and prosperity.
China Coronavirus
Great Power Competition

Report Dec 20, 2019

Leading the free world: How America benefits

By Paul D. Miller

Americans have been the unconscious beneficiaries of a world order that would not exist without them. Just as we take for granted electricity and plumbing, so to we take for granted the peace and prosperity of our system.

China Nationalism
Great Power Competition

Report Dec 12, 2019

Managed competition: Meeting China’s challenge in a multi-vector world

By Franklin D. Kramer

Understanding and responding to the challenges China presents requires a broad perspective, recognizing the interaction of economic, diplomatic, and security issues.
China Europe & Eurasia
Great Power Competition

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series Oct 30, 2019

Present at the re-creation: A global strategy for revitalizing, adapting, and defending a rules-based international system

By Ash Jain, Matthew Kroenig

We need a new strategy—one that is both ambitious and innovative, geared towards meeting the challenges and opportunities that the new decade brings.
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Great Power Competition

D-10 Strategy Forum Mar 16, 2017

Strategy of “Constrainment”

By Ash Jain, Damon Wilson, Fen Hampson, et al

D-10 think tank experts outline a comprehensive strategy to counter Russia’s challenge to the rules-based democratic order.

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