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Based on the search results, there are several established terms of art that address your question, each with slightly different emphasis:

Primary Terms

  1. “Strategic Competition” This is the most widely used term in international relations scholarship and policy circles to describe comprehensive, all-domain rivalry. It encompasses military, economic, diplomatic, informational, cyber, and space dimensions as integrated arenas of state-to-state contestation.

  2. “Great Power Competition” (GPC) More specific in scope, this term refers to strategic competition specifically between major powers. It’s commonly used in U.S. defense and foreign policy documents.

Analytical Framework: DIME The DIME framework categorizes the instruments/domains of national power:

Diplomatic Informational Military Economic

Sometimes expanded to DIME-Cy (adding Cyber) or including additional domains like space.

Related Concept:

Grand Strategy “Grand strategy” describes the long-term, comprehensive orchestration of all these tools. Per Oxford Politics Trove and NDU Press sources, grand strategy answers “how to make oneself safe in an unsafe world” by balancing ends and means across all domains.

So to directly answer your question: there’s no single perfect umbrella term, but “strategic competition” comes closest as the term of art encompassing all domains and levers. For comprehensive orchestration across them, scholars refer to “grand strategy.” In U.S. policy discourse specifically, “Great Power Competition” is common shorthand.