Presents the perspective of a China hawk who sees China as a direct threat to the American order.

The order-builder’s own account of how the postwar equilibrium is coming apart and the grammar of the multipolar order in which any partnership of equals would have to operate.

Explores the long marriage between the military and the frontier sciences.

Argues that great-power rivalries tend to end in warfare and popularises the vocabulary of the Thucydides Trap around the supposed inevitability of conflict.

Examines how the future of warfare will be driven by technological integration.

A seminal text in military theory that defines the political nature of war.

An in-depth examination of China’s use of neoliberal doctrine to pull Apple’s production processes within its borders.

Moves through some of China’s most important figures after the Opium Wars and examines what they considered the path for China to return to wealth and power.

Debunks the myth that only corporations can innovate effectively and demonstrates the enormous role that public-sector research and development played in creating today’s Big Tech firms.

Examines the successful industrial policy of the Asian Tigers: domestic educational and agricultural programmes, followed by national industrial champions, and finally financial liberalisation.

Shows the catastrophic cost of a security spiral run amok and how fear of communism led the United States to support mass murder.

Maps the material dependencies and chokepoints underlying the global economy and shows how a small amount of pressure, applied precisely, can cripple an entire supply chain.

Covers the early securitization of the American academic sector after Chinese spies abused research access. It laid the groundwork for later efforts to ban students from the Seven Sons universities.

Documents the United States’ transition from free-trade orthodoxy towards weaponised interdependence as a tool of geopolitical pressure.

Expands on the strict interpretation of geopolitics and explains how geography shapes foreign relations.

An assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States in an era of returning great-power politics. Crucially, the assessment was made before the election of Donald Trump.

Focuses on the company that has probably been most exposed to the return of geopolitics: the Netherlands-based company ASML.

A history of semiconductors and the global supply chains, public investments, and technological chokepoints that made them central to geopolitical competition.