Great Power Competition and Innovation

This book addresses the strategic competition that increasingly is taking place between the great powers in international politics. This competition revolves around states seeking increased influence, economic advantages, information superiority, and other security, technological, and military-strategic benefits. The competitive dynamic is also evident in the Arctic, where the threat environment is shaped not only by traditional security challenges but also by new ones, in what may be described as a grey zone between peace and open warfare. Within this grey zone, states employ various instruments to achieve political objectives, such as intelligence capabilities, special operations forces as well as emerging technologies. The capabilities are used to secure information superiority, influence, and the capacity for power projection.

offers glimpses into the possible futures of Arctic security provides deep insight into the struggle for control, situational awareness and influence in the Arctic brings unique insights into an ongoing competition for Arctic dominance

Autorentext

Njord Wegge is Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian Defence University College. He has published extensively on topics related to security and military power in the Arctic, hybrid warfare, intelligence service and democratic control of intelligence services.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Hybrid threats and irregular warfare: a conceptual framework.- Chapter 3: Is the threat posed by Russia's bastion defense concept still a valid basis for defense planning on NATO's northern flank?.- Chapter 4: China's fast-track to military presence in the Arctic.- Chapter 5: Influence operations in the north: Finnmark as a target for Russian influence.- Chapter 6: Russia on Svalbard: security policy, bilateralization, and subversion.- Chapter 7: Democratic Responses to Rivalry in the Information Sphere: Outlining a normative framework for influencing operations.- Chapter 8: Great power competition, intelligence, and new concepts of warfare.- Chapter 9: Army intelligence capabilities at the tactical level: Flexible support for total defense in response to complex threats below the threshold of war? .- Chapter 10: Special operations forces as a means of strategic flexibility in the Arctic.- Chapter 11: Satellite technology and geopolitics in the Arctic.