From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 09:55:45 EST
A new map of the world -- courtesy of Thomas P.M Barnett, a professor of warfare analysis who has been advising the Office of the US Secretary of Defense and who "has been giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community": http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm "The new security paradigm that shapes this age", Barnett claims, is "*Disconnectedness defines danger*". From the perspective of that paradigm, Saddam Hussein's regime is dangerous because it is "dangerously disconnected from the globalizing world, from its rule sets, its norms, and all the ties that bind countries together in mutually assured dependence." [!] Those parts of the world which stand outside of the "Core" -- and therefore haven't become part of the globalization process -- are the "Non-Integrating Gap" and form globalization's "ozone hole." [!] While, according to Barnett, more and more of the world will become part of the "Core" and thereby the process of globalization, "it is always possible to fall off this bandwagon called globalization. And when you do, bloodshed will follow." [!] See maps for the new picture of the world (can be downloaded in pdf format) and listings at end of article of countries in the "ozone hole." In solidarity, Jerry
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