ASEAN Leadership in Flux
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 10 Scott D. McDonald Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, 1969 Introduction The end of the Cold War’s bipolar [...]
South Asia’s Strategic Edge
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 9 Shyam Tekwani and Saumya Sampath We may be small, but that does not give you the license to bully us. — Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, President of the Maldives, [...]
India’s Strategic Ascent
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 8 Shyam Tekwani and Saumya Sampath India’s strategic location gives it the potential to play a pivotal role, but potential is not action. — Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime [...]
Myanmar on the Edge
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 7 Miemie Winn Byrd The edge of chaos is a dangerous place to dwell. — Niall Ferguson, adapted from Civilization: The West and the Rest (2010) Introduction Amid Indo-Pacific [...]
China’s Nuclear Rise
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 6 Bill Wieninger Rational leaders took us to the brink of nuclear annihilation; that peril still exists today. — Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary, 1961–1968 Interview in The Fog of [...]
Terrorism after the Caliphate
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 5 Sam Mullins Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or [...]
China’s Reusable Rocket Surge
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 4 Elliot Joseph Fox Whoever controls space controls the world. — Lyndon B. Johnson Introduction On December 21, 2015, a soot-streaked Falcon 9 first stage descended in controlled triumph onto [...]
Peak China?
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 3 Ryan C. Agee The rise of a great power often brings about its own set of challenges, which can lead to its decline. — Orville Schell and John Delury, [...]
Disruptive Risks of Globalization
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 2 Sebastian Kevany When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will. — Attributed to Frédéric Bastiat Introduction Globalization is no longer a phase; it is the underlying condition of the [...]
Edges of Instability
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 1 James M. Minnich In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world [...]
