The Cooperative Advantage How Innovation Rewrote the Rules of Foreign Policy

The Cooperative Advantage How Innovation Rewrote the Rules of Foreign Policy The days in which great powers wage total war in pursuit of land and resources appear to have come to an end, as technological innovation has reduced competition for limited natural resources. Before, geopolitics was largely zero-sum: one country’s gain was another’s loss. But as the basis of national wealth has shifted from land and natural resources to knowledge, human capital, and technology, geopolitical competition for land and resources has waned. Where resource scarcity is zero-sum, technological innovation is increasingly win-win. Against contemporary fearmongering about Russia and China, international commerce and diplomacy have actually become less rivalrous. Far from a threat to our prosperity and future, “the rise of the rest,” especially the large nations of China, India, South Africa, and Brazil, will spur new technological developments which will redound to the benefit of all.  by Charles Kennyhttp://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/issue-4/the-cooperative-advantage