Abstract
This paper presents a new perspective of national power—sustainable national power (SNP)—emphasizing both the traditional comprehensive national power (CNP) and social and environmental sustainability. We propose a measurement to quantify the SNP based on the measurement of comprehensive national power and a sustainable adjusted index. In addition, density-equalizing maps are adopted to visualize the sustainable national power of countries in order to gain a better understanding for its current state and future development from a cartographic perspective. China and its neighboring countries are selected as a case study area. The results show that China outperforms other countries in most of the CNP dimensions but performs poorly in various SNP-adjusted dimensions within the study area. The composite score shows that China is with the highest regional SNP, followed by Japan, Russia, South Korea and India. Furthermore, time series of cartograms reveal evidence showing power transitions among countries. In addition, the effectiveness of cartograms for cartographic communication is discussed.
Highlights
Comprehensive national power (CNP), the most widely used index to comprehensively measure and represent the global or regional competiveness and influence of a country, plays a central role in international relations theory [1]
This paper emphasizes the sustainability of national power and presents a measurement to quantify the sustainable national power
Sustainable national power is modeled based on the measurement of comprehensive national power and sustainable national power (SNP)-adjusted index
Summary
Comprehensive national power (CNP), the most widely used index to comprehensively measure and represent the global or regional competiveness and influence of a country, plays a central role in international relations theory [1]. Previous theories consider that the growth of states means the extension of power radius and the expansion of living (interest) space (e.g., [2,3]). Under the background of globalization, economic radiation, and political and cultural influences become the main means of states growth instead of land occupation. We present a new perspective of national power—its sustainability. We review previous work measuring comprehensive national power and sustainable competitiveness. Based on these works we construct an indicator system and present a measurement to quantify sustainable national power.
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