Ignatius Discovers The New Map
David Ignatius gives Thomas Barnet's "The Pentagon's New Map" some much overdue praise. Now if I can ever get around to penning a review of it. Don't let my own procrastination dissuade anyone, though ... it's about the best book on forien policy I've read yet.
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FWIW, I remember watching a Frontline report on the world economy , and Clinton and people in his administration mentioned some similar ideas to the idea that eradicating disconnectedness is "the defining security task of our age."
David Rothkopf said, "In the first days of the Clinton administration, we were in a period of growth and boom in the world, and there was a real sense that the opportunities for the United States to take advantage and to lead in this period of globalization were enormous." I can't locate the exact Clinton quote, but it was to the effect that getting countries involved and interconnected was an important goal as a foreign policy.
It's not the same, I know, but it's similar. And I bring it up not just for the sake of comparision but because "globalization" is such a negative term on both the left and the right.
I'm also curius to know how this book relates to the ideas from PNAC regarding the "New American Century."
Posted by: Tx bubba | December 14, 2004 01:56 PM