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Collaborative Rivalry Needs Rules

How Nations Can Compete Without Turning Preventable Catastrophe into a Strategic Advantage.

Central argument

Competition between states does not have to make preventable disasters someone's advantage.

The paper examines the structural conditions under which national rivalry can remain productive rather than corrosive — and, specifically, when a preventable catastrophe becomes something a competing power can exploit rather than something the international system is organized to prevent.

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