America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country A doesn't… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
