Geopolitical Threat Monitors
7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks
Geopolitical Threat Monitors alert us to to the fact that geopolitical rivals are threatening and sometimes directly attacking Western democracies. In the wake of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, increasing tensions over Taiwan, and more general concern about the security implications of the United States' hyper-polarized dysfunctional politics, concerns about the ability of Western democracies to effectively defend themselves are becoming increasingly widespread. Examples include the way in which Carnegie Europe alerts us to attempts by geopolitical rivals to influence domestic political activities, Olaf Scholz urges us to take the immediate steps to avoid a new Cold War, Samantha Power warns us about the inadequacy of current strategies for countering autocracy, Paul Gigot voices concern about the resurgence of isolationism, Hal Brands reminds us that effectively defending democracy against often ruthless rivals may require us to compromise some of our most basic liberal beliefs, and Fareed Zakaria urges us not to overreact and forget the many ways in which the US is still astonishingly strong compared with its geopolitical rivals.
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