Alternative Worldviews: Understanding Potential Trajectories of Great-Power Ideological Competition

The United States is engaged in a new era of great-power competition partially playing out in the realms of information, ideas, and ideology. The goal of this report is to help U.S. decisionmakers anticipate changes in the global competition of ideas and adapt policy accordingly. The authors examine trends in Chinese and Russian policy and actions, and discuss nonstate actors to analyze what ideological competition might look like in the future.