Contemporary warfare is spilling from the battlefield into industrial, cyber, economic, and informational domains, and increasingly pulling entire societies into the conflict. Defense policy must adapt.

While China and Russia make moves to shore up their positions in the geopolitical contest to come, the United States and Brussels opt for a comforting state of denial.

A Western reproduction of Belt and Road is not desirable, let alone feasible. Rather, if the West is to make up ground in the Global South, it will start with win-win cooperation that takes the interests of non-aligned partners into account.

A new global dynamic is emerging that bears striking parallels to the Cold War. Here’s a breakdown of the main players.