Published: 5 February 2025, NIICE Commentary 9924

Author: Urbi Das

International politics is a dynamically evolving complex power game, where nation-states are in a constant struggle to carve out their own area of influence. Indo-Pacific has come into the limelight due to the shift in the fulcrum of power that is manifested mostly in the maritime calculations surrounding the region.  Power Transition Theory espoused by A.F.K. Organski, in his most celebrated book World Politics (1958) refers to changes and shifts in global power where relations among sovereign nation-states are affected by uneven distribution of power. Organski’s theory rests upon the hierarchical ordering of international politics where the rising power of the ‘challenger’ tries to alter the existing structure created by the ‘dominant’ nation in a quest to reorder the balance of influence. Power transition theory happens when the rising power begins to reduce the gap in economic, military, and technological capabilities which leads to the inevitability of conflict between the dominant and challenger nation as the challenger power seeks to revise the international system.

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