The Great Power Competition Volume 1: Regional Perspectives on Peace and Security

ISBN-13: 9783030644727 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 430 str.

Adib Farhadi; Anthony J. Masys

Spis treści

1. Surfing the Conflux: Agility for Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence.- 2. Conceptualizing the Great Power Competition and U.S. Economic Strategy for the Central and South Asia (CASA) Region.- 3. Afghanistan's Lithium as Strategic U.S. Focus in the Great Power Competition.- 4. Central Asia, Great Power Competition, and Achieving Peace in Afghanistan.- 5. A Failure to See: The Strategic Error of Peacetime Deployments As a Direct Cause For Failure in Afghanistan.- 6. Winning the Great Game in Afghanistan:Bottom Up, Not Top Down.- 7. Afghanistan: Changing Dynamics of Peace and Conflict.- 8. Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Regions: Refocus and Re-imagine: Creating an Architecture for Impact.- 9. Pre-revolutionary Iran and Great Power Rivalries: An Historical Analysis.- 10. Afghanistan – Development Options in the Context of US-Taliban Agreement and Great Power Rivalry.

O autorze

Dr. Adib Farhadi is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of Executive Education at the University of South Florida. His research, which is at the intersection of religion, politics, and conflict with a particular focus on the “Silk Road” Central and South Asia (CASA) Region, is the subject of his recent book, Countering Violent Extremism by Winning Hearts and Minds. He is the Director of the Great Power Competition Conference Series and a frequent presenter on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), Conflict Resolution, Strategic Negotiations & Communication, and Geoeconomics. Formerly Dr. Farhadi served in senior positions for Afghanistan and extensively advised the United States government and various other international organizations. Dr. Farhadi earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Canberra, M.A. from New York University, and B.S. from East Carolina University.

Dr. Anthony Masys is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr. Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series.

Dr. Masys is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. 

Dr. Masys supports the University of Leicester (U.K.) as an associate tutor in their Distance MSc Program on Risk Crisis and Disaster Management.

Blurb

Over the past decade, the international political system has come to be characterized as a Great Power Competition in which multiple would-be hegemons compete for power and influence. Instead of a global climate of unchallenged United States dominance, revisionist powers, notably China and Russia alongside other regional powers, are vying for dominance through political, military, and economic means. A critical battleground in the Great Powers Competition is the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and the Central Asia South Asia (CASA), also known as the Central Region.

With the planned withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, the U.S. has stated its intention of shifting attention away from the CASA Region in favor of a more isolationist foreign policy approach. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the implications for this shift related to regional diplomacy & politics, economic opportunities & rivalries, security considerations & interests, and the information environment.  Amplifying the vital importance of success in the Central Region to U.S. prosperity and security, this volume advances dialogue in identifying key issues for stakeholders within and beyond the Central Region to gain a holistic perspective that better informs decision-making at various levels.

This collection of work comes from scholars, strategic thinkers, and subject matter experts who participated in the Great Power Competition Conference hosted by the University of South Florida, in partnership with the National Defense University Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Strategies in January 2020.