Geopolitics of AI Power, Conflict, and the Future of Global Order

Brands, Hal (Editor)

ISBN 10: 142145582X / ISBN 13: 9781421455822

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026

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342 pages. 6.00x0.86x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geopolitics of AI Power, Conflict, and the Future of Global Order
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142145582X
• ISBN 13: 9781421455822
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.52 kilograms

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Synopsis

Artificial intelligence in an age of rivalry, risk, and power.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging and evolving amid intense global competition. Geopolitics of AI examines how breakthroughs in AI intersect with great-power rivalry, military competition, economic statecraft, and competing models of governance―and how those dynamics will shape the development and use of AI itself.

Edited by Hal Brands, this volume brings together leading scholars and policy analysts to address AI's strategic implications. Contributors examine how AI may alter military operations, economic productivity, alliance structures, and deterrence, while also creating new challenges of instability, escalation, and misuse. The book also considers how geopolitical competition will influence technological innovation in the years ahead. Rivalries among major powers will shape research priorities, regulatory approaches, and international norms and will determine whether AI becomes a source of cooperation, coercion, or conflict. These pressures raise urgent questions about governance, control, and the balance between innovation and restraint.

Geopolitics of AI offers a timely, wide-angle perspective on one of the defining challenges of contemporary international politics. It will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations and security studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and readers seeking to understand how emerging technologies are reshaping global order.

Contributors: Salman Ahmed, Jim Baker, Dean Ball, Mike Beckley, Hal Brands, Ben Buchanan, Seth Center, Matan Chorev, Peter Feaver, Lawrence Freedman, Mike Horowitz, Sarah Kreps, Mark Leonard, Michael Mazarr, Rebecca Patterson, Paul Scharre, Jackie Schneider, Adam Segal, Michael Sulmeyer

About the Author

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, he is also the author or editor of several books, including The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age, The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today, and Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, with Michael Beckley.