'The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition' Edited by CWP alum Ja Ian Chong

We are now living in a world of renewed great power competition (see Mead, 2014; Brands, 2017; Wright, 2017; Colby and Mitchell, 2020; Lynch III, 2021). Since the turn of the 2010s, the relatively stable period of the post-Cold War years has been replaced by a new era of great power competition. When world politics changes, great power competition correspondingly re-emerges as a contentious topic for scholarly research. This chapter endeavours to make a modest contribution to this (re-)emerging field by advancing an analytical framework that integrates recent studies and stimulates future research. The rest of this chapter will be organised as follows. It begins with a discussion of the reemergence of great power competition studies, followed by a conceptualisation of the notion of great power competition. The main body of the chapter will advance an analytical framework, outlining a general list of actors, mechanisms, and domains pertaining to contemporary great power competition studies, using an integrative literature review approach. The last section concludes the chapter by discussing future research directions.

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION Edited by Brian C. H. Fong and Ja Ian Chong

Ja Ian Chong is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation–China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893–1952 (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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