The Marathon Initiative
For General Operating Support
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Amount$80,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/13/2021
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
The Marathon Initiative is a nonprofit research think tank focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. While “great power competition” with China is widely accepted in Washington, D.C., there’s been little discussion about why ordinary Americans should care about it. The Marathon Initiative’s proposed work proceeds from an assessment that China has potent incentives to build a predatory Asia-based economic bloc, the existence of which would undermine Americans’ prosperity and freedoms in very concrete and direct ways. Thus, the Marathon Initiative’s work seeks to explain: (a) why Americans should support a sustained strategy for great power competition, and (b) what this confrontation should aspire to achieve. As a critical part of this, the work will seek to develop a more heterodox expert discussion on issues of global political economy — dominated to date by neoliberal approaches.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.themarathoninitiative.org
Address
1400 L Street Northwest, Lobby 2, PO Box 34593, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Marathon Initiative is a nonprofit research think tank focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. While “great power competition” with China is widely accepted in Washington, D.C., there’s been little discussion about why ordinary Americans should care about it. The Marathon Initiative’s proposed work proceeds from an assessment that China has potent incentives to build a predatory Asia-based economic bloc, the existence of which would undermine Americans’ prosperity and freedoms in very concrete and direct ways. Thus, the Marathon Initiative’s work seeks to explain: (a) why Americans should support a sustained strategy for great power competition, and (b) what this confrontation should aspire to achieve. As a critical part of this, the work will seek to develop a more heterodox expert discussion on issues of global political economy — dominated to date by neoliberal approaches.
