Economic, Military, and Institutional Intervention in Great Power Competition

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Great powers engage a range of strategies to compete with one another. This panel presents work that considers five aspects of these strategies, including economic, military, and institutional competition and their domestic and international consequences. Haoming Xiong takes a network approach to understanding economic competition over strategic technologies, looking at China and U.S. policy toward China’s export of 5G technology. Gloria Xiong considers how a rising power uses economic coercion to achieve geopolitical goals, studying China’s leveraging of its trade relationships with South Korea and Australia to influence their defense and foreign policy-making. Considering military interventions, Dana Stuster takes a structural approach to understanding great-power competition, and in particular considers the way that regional distributions of power affect the ways that middle powers cooperate or compete with great powers. Wendy Wagner argues that states that are targets of foreign interference try to appease rebel groups to constrain the ability of intervening powers to find proxies with which to work. And Raymond Wang considers how rising powers, and China in particular, intervene in institutions to shape international rules or build alternatives.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• Coercive Statecraft in Disguise: China’s Threat Assessment of Economic Linkages - Gloria Xiong, Cornell University

• Global Networks and Disruptive Strategies in Great-Power Competition - Haoming Xiong, Ohio State University

• The Power and Peril of Regional Hegemony - John Dana Stuster, Naval War College

• Building a New Stove: How Rising Powers Shape International Order - Raymond Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair

• John Dana Stuster Naval War College

Discussant

• Jonathan D. Caverley Naval War College