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Great Power Rivalry Is Here to Stay, Say National Security Leaders

Posted: September 21st, 2016

With a decline in U.S. global influence since the 2008 financial crisis, China’s emergence as an economic and increasingly political world power, and Russia striving to reassert its might, it’s no longer possible to see issues in the black and white tones of the Cold War – grey is a better shade these days, says former Acting Director of the CIA and Cipher Brief network member John McLaughlin. 

At a joint CIA-George Washington University intelligence conference on Tuesday, McLaughlin said the world order is not bipolar as it was during the Cold War, nor unipolar as it was after the fall of the Soviet Union, with the U.S. dominating.  Furthermore, there is not yet a clear multi-power structure.

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