What kinds of expressions of power will win allegiances and allies in the immediate future? That question has become more important since the collapse of the Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the political and economic advance of China. Traditional kinds of power, mostly military, now share their vaunted status in global alignments with less obvious “tools” of power, such as coalitions, cyber-systems, social services, culture and, of course, geo-economic deployment of capital. China, with its focus on strategic use of capital and leverage; Russia, with its focus on surreptitious disruptions of adversaries’ societies and its image of traditional power; the U.S., with its focus on “America first” and the related desire to pull back from foreign involvement, leaving it to the private sector to woo allies worldwide; and Europe, with its struggle to remain a continental force in the middle of a major realignment of power in the world – all of these powerful countries and organizations, while dealing with domestic pressures and dissent, are still engaged in the twenty-first century’s version of the nineteenth century’s Great Game. How that is playing out is the subject of Part II of this Briefing.