"Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties……" — Thomas P.M. Barnett
"Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them."
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Thomas P.M. Barnett
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16 Quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
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Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not…
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If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about…
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Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
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An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended…
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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid…
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The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil…
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The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and…
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We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se…
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I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is…
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Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
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Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
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