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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is too weak and too burdened by his rivalry with the hard-line Islamist Hamas – which rules in Gaza – to allow himself the political luxury of departing from the core demands of Palestinian nationalism.
At the same time, great power rivalry is returning.
Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni-Shia rivalry.
True, the deep, ingrained rivalry and mistrust between Libya’s military-security apparatuses is likely to give rise to splits that will be a key factor in undermining the regime.
Central to his concept, he offers no proof for this claim and concedes as much by concluding lamely: "The real reason for the conflict is a fundamental disagreement (between China and the United States) over the future balance of power in Asia" -- after all the huffing and puffing no clash of civilizations but the good old great power rivalry.
Global rivalry between superpowers armed to the teeth is the stuff of computer games but, except in rare circumstances, such clarity is not the pattern of world politics.
Economic interdependence between China and the US buffers their geopolitical and ideological rivalry.
Booming bilateral trade, far from helping to turn the page on old rifts, has been accompanied by increasing border incidents, military tensions, and geopolitical rivalry, as well as disagreements on riparian and maritime issues.
What is needed, above all, is a regional approach to the increasingly murderous Sunni-Shia rivalry.
Examples include competition between welfare states to deter economic migrants, the race to the bottom in taxation, and regulatory rivalry in the banking and insurance sectors.
In a departure from America’s official position since September 11, 2001, the US will now view its global power rivalry with China and Russia, rather than terrorism by non-state actors, as the primary threat to national security and world peace.
Historically, the Korean Peninsula was the playground for this rivalry, but, with North and South Korea appearing to make peace with each other, South Korea is also staking a claim to regional influence.
Xi’s visit to India strongly suggests that China is determined to engage with Modi in ways that are intended to inhibit the bilateral rivalry from intensifying.
Here, she was aided by the great confidence that Obama placed in her – a remarkable outcome, given their rivalry in the 2008 presidential campaign.
But such mollifying rhetoric cannot obscure the defining role that great-power rivalry is playing in the South China Sea.
Hezbollah’s priority is to maintain the military capacity to fight Israel, and also to play a pivotal role in the broader regional rivalry between Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas on one side, and the United States, the Sunni-led mainstream Arab states, the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, and Syria’s Lebanese foes on the other.
“The Indian Ocean,” says the US author Robert Kaplan, is “where the rivalry between the United States and China in the Pacific interlocks with the regional rivalry between China and India, and also with America’s fight against Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, which includes America’s attempt to contain Iran.”
Not only is it occurring in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, directly on Saudi Arabia’s borders; the kingdom’s direct military intervention has brought its strategic rivalry with Iran into the open.
As always in the Middle East, religious and ethnic factors play a large role in this rivalry.
Nevertheless, the issue rekindles old debates over deterrence, mutual assured destruction and nuclear arms control, and revives the rivalry between the nuclear powers just when nuclear weapons had lost much of their relevance.
Are we threatened with a new arms race between Russia and the US, with Europe once again the theater of their rivalry?
Nor can the political climate, old differences, and the by-no-means new power rivalry between Russia and the US justify pessimism.
But the West would also suffer, for a new “instability arch” along the Russian-Ukrainian border would kill the idea of establishing an alliance of the world’s large powers against new threats and revive rivalry between blocs of a different kind.
There is obviously no guarantee that the oldest son is the best businessman, and the result could be bitter and ferocious sibling rivalry.
Mehdi Miremadi, an AI consultant at McKinsey & Company, similarly believes that partnership, not rivalry, will define the future of computer-assisted work.
The rivalry between him and almost everyone in the industry was bitter.
But here, regional politics must be taken into account, especially the continuing rivalry between India and Pakistan.
To be sure, the emerging powers do share a strong inclination toward rivalry – or at least toward autonomy – which is rooted in what might be called the “psychology of rise.”
In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs.
The sources of revolutionary instability include tenuous post-colonial boundaries; arrested modernization; the failed “Arab Spring”; and religious sectarianism, exacerbated by the interstate rivalry between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia-ruled Iran.
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