Hegemonic transition

Important concept but deeply academic. Most practitioners would benefit from the idea explained without the label. Worth including because it shapes the operating environment for everything -- the geopolitical backdrop of rising multipolarity, fragmenting alliances, and competing value systems. But the term should stay in the background; 'great power competition' or 'shifting geopolitical order' communicates without requiring a seminar.

The dangerous period when one superpower is overtaken by another