{"id":11519,"date":"2018-11-15T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2018-11-15T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:08:20","slug":"strategika-issue-55-the-structure-of-world-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-55-the-structure-of-world-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 55: The Structure of World Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Structure of the Contemporary International System<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Joseph Joffe in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"field-blurb field-name-field-research-teaser\">\n<div class=\"field-blurb field-name-field-research-teaser\">\n<p>A monopoly obtains when one firm is free to set prices and output while keeping ambitious newcomers out of the market. The best example is Standard Oil in the late 19th century. Ruthlessly undercutting competitors, the company ended up controlling 90 percent of refined oil flows in the United States. The United States never had that kind of overweening power in the international \u201cmarket.\u201d It may have come close to unipolarity in the 1990s when its mortal rival, the Soviet Union, had committed suicide. Yet the contemporary world is no longer unipolar. Neither is it bi- or multipolar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/structure-contemporary-international-system\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeking Stability in the Structure of Power<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Seth Cropsey in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"field-blurb field-name-field-research-teaser\">\n<p>The global strategic landscape is moving away from the primacy that America achieved over the last century. New terrain includes the possibility of great power competition, a return to the bipolarity that policy-makers in the immediate post-Cold War said must never happen again. Current sentiment in the U.S. illustrates that there are worse possibilities than bipolarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/seeking-stability-structure-power\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Vagaries of World Power<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague,Nadia Schadlow in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By traditional measures\u2014military strength, economic wealth, population size\u2014the United States remains the world\u2019s preeminent superpower. Its economy continues to expand; it deploys the largest military in the world; it is home to a growing population; and American laws and capital flows encourage a vibrant ecosystem for innovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/vagaries-world-power\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Structure of the Contemporary International System Please read a new essay by my colleague, Joseph Joffe in Strategika. A monopoly obtains when one firm is free to set prices and output while keeping ambitious newcomers out of the market. The best example is Standard Oil in the late 19th century. Ruthlessly undercutting competitors, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2ZN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12970,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-71-china-and-the-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #71: China and the Pandemic","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Domestic Disorder and International Credibility Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika. 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