5/26/2023 0 Comments The world after bush![]() ![]() Barnett's central premise is that the United States created globalization locally and exported it world-wide as a more-or-less genetically-required facet of Get your copy now, read it, and pray to Odin that somebody running the government reads it. The book claims to be a "grand strategy" look at how America has, is, and should be interacting with the world vis-a-vis globalization, and as such presents a view of America that anyone outside of author Thomas P.M. Get your copy now, read it, and pray to Odin that somebody running the government reads it. Globalization as it exists today was built by America-and now it’s time for America to shape and redefine what comes next. There are those writing now who say America is in decline. Barnett gives us a fundamental understanding of both, showing us not only how the world is now but how it will be. It is not a simple matter of a course correction but of a complete recalibration, and the opportunities it presents are far greater than the perils. The “great powers” are no longer just the world’s major nation-states but the powerful forces, past, present, and future, moving with us and past us like a freight train. In Great Powers, Barnett offers a tour de force analysis of the grand realignments that are both already here and coming up fast in the spheres of economics, diplomacy, defense, technology, security, the environment, and much more. Now, with a chance to start over, what do we do? Where’s the world going now, and how do we not only rejoin it but become a leader again in what has become the most profound reordering of the globe since the end of World War II? Now, in Great Powers, Barnett delivers his most sweeping- and important-book of all.įor eight years, the current administration has done much to disconnect or alienate America from the world, but the world has certainly not been standing still. Barnett’s second book, Blueprint for Action, demonstrated how to put the first book’s principles to work. ![]() “A combination of Tom Friedman on globalization and Carl von Clausewitz on war, the red-hot book among the nation’s admirals and generals,” wrote David Ignatius in The Washington Post. In civilian and military circles alike, The Pentagon’s New Map became one of the most talked about books of 2004. “A combination of Tom Friedman on globalization and Carl von Clausewitz on war, The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map brings us a remarkable analysis of the post-Bush world, and America’s leadership role in it. The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map brings us a remarkable analysis of the post-Bush world, and America’s leadership role in it. ![]()
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