Predators on the Frontier

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Appeared in: Volume 11, Number 5
Published on: February 12, 2016

The Revisionists

Predators on the Frontier A. Wess Mitchell & Jakub Grygiel

America’s rivals are probing U.S. defenses across the globe.

Revisionist powers are on the move. ‎From eastern Ukraine and the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, large rivals of the United States are modernizing their military forces, grabbing strategic real estate, and threatening vulnerable U.S. allies. Their goal is not just to assert hegemony over their neighborhoods but to rearrange the global security order as we have known it since the end of the Second World War. We first wrote about these emerging dynamics in 2010, and then in TAI in 2011. We argued three things. First, that revisionist powers were using a strategy of “probing”:...

Jakub Grygiel is a senior fellow and A. Wess Mitchell is the President of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Washington, DC. Their book, The Unquiet Frontier (Princeton University Press), will be on sale at the end of February.

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