The Great Power Competition Volume 1

1. Surfing the Conflux: Agility for Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence.- 2. Conceptualizing the Great Power Competition and U.S. Economic Strategy for the Central and South Asia (CASA) Region.- 3. Afghanistan's Lithium as Strategic U.S. Focus in the Great Power Competition.- 4. Central Asia, Great Power Competition, and Achieving Peace in Afghanistan.- 5. A Failure to See: The Strategic Error of Peacetime Deployments As a Direct Cause For Failure in Afghanistan.

Dr. Adib Farhadi is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of Executive Education at the University of South Florida. His research, which is at the intersection of religion, politics, and conflict with a particular focus on the "Silk Road" Central and South Asia (CASA) Region, is the subject of his recent book, Countering Violent Extremism by Winning Hearts and Minds. He is the Director of the Great Power Competition Conference Series and a frequent presenter on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), Conflict Resolution, Strategic Negotiations & Communication, and Geoeconomics. Formerly Dr. Farhadi served in senior positions for Afghanistan and extensively advised the United States government and various other international organizations. Dr. Farhadi earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Canberra, M.A. from New York University, and B.S. from East Carolina University.

Dr. Anthony Masys is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr. Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series.


Dr. Masys is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. Dr. Masys supports the University of Leicester (U.K.) as an associate tutor in their Distance MSc Program on Risk Crisis and Disaster Management.