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19 February 2009
Thomas Barnett on the post-Bush world
It's no secret that the world is on the alert for plans toward political and economic solvency. Strategic planner Thomas Barnett has released Great Powers: America and the World After Bush to address many of our most significant global crises.
In a recent interview with Dan Hare, Barnett elaborated on the book, saying the US must admit that it no longer has control over globalization -- or the global economy. Here's a quote:
As we're demonstrating now through the overhang we've created financially, I want readers to realize that we're the one country that can truly destroy globalization. That's why I think it's absolutely essential -- and why I wrote the book -- to make Americans aware that this globalization is a many-decades-long project that began with how we started this country and ultimately with how we seek to run this complex world -- with rules but not a ruler.
Also check out Barnett's 2005 talk on rethinking the US Military.
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