We illustrate the argument with examples from the last twenty years of Chinese grand strategy. Check it out! (/end)

We isolate three pathways: renewing and redirecting existing infrastructure; building alternatives to existing infrastructure; and developing and deploying new infrastructures at the leading edge of technological development. (4/)

In a system defined by the nuclear defense dilemma, we argue that infrastructure provision represents the least costly and most likely pathway to hegemonic transition. (3/)

For baseball fans, there's actually no Ray Kinsella in it, but the main point we make is that the building of systemic infrastructure creates structural power by generating path dependencies and imposing switching costs. (2/)

Well done, that’s less than a year! Next level: you should try your techniques on (unnamed) university presses.

Reason 3 is the killer Dan. I checked out of US foreign policy analysis in 2017, on the basis that analysis of decisions requires some form of thought-based decision-making: your toddler in chief thread demonstrated that prerequisite was absent. Trump killed FPA, do something better with your time.