The Power Atlas – Seven Networks of an Interconnected World
Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, data, and the connections they establish. This
Power Atlas, compiled by the
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)as a companion volume to ECFR Director Mark Leonard’s book
The Age of Unpeace., shows through data where power now lies in the world, describing the web of connections and flows in today’s globalised world. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to control the modern world, suggests Mark Leonard in this interactive document. Each essay focuses on one of seven terrains - economics, technology, climate, people, military, health, and culture - describing how each has become a battleground of power. The biggest change to the effects of hard power in the first six terrains lies in the seventh: culture. The fact that the world is moving from universalism and liberalisation to cultural resistance has blunted the advantages of many established powers in the other domains. The old economic world of globalisation was crowned by a G7 of advanced economies but, as the
Power Atlas shows, the connected world is dominated by a slightly different group of great powers – each of which has its own goals, and its own strategies for seeking power and glory.
https://ecfr.eu/special/power-atlas/
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