Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition Class 2
We just had our second week of our new national security class at Stanford \u2013 Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage).\n\nA key focus of the class is the return of Great Power competition. This isn\u2019t an issue of which nation comes in first, it\u2019s about what the world-order will look like for the rest of the century and beyond. Will it be a rules-based order where states cooperate to pursue a shared vision for a free and open region and where the sovereignty of all countries large and small is protected under international law? Or will an alternative vision for an autocratic and dystopian future be coerced and imposed by revisionist powers set on disrupting the U.S. led international order- an order that has brought the world unprecedented peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War?\n\nAll of which leads to today\u2019s topic \u2013 China.