Flit(tm): An Interview With Dr. Barnett. An Interview With Dr. Barnett Dr. Thomas Barnett has been extremely generous with his time with me in the past. I thought I might push my luck a bit and see if he would answer on some questions that have been accumulating in the back of my head for some time. To my immense surprise and satisfaction, he quickly responded with answers to my top ten list of questions, which I share with you below.
And now, Flit(TM)'s inaugural interview. 1. A: It's a question of mix. 2. A: Bush's side has gotten it more up to now in terms of bold action and revamping the national security establishment in the direction it needs to go. 3. A: So long as the WTO Doha Rounds continue, I see enough give in the system. 4. A: Kyoto was a dose of our own medicine. 5. A: No, I do not. 6. A: States still make sense in the Core now, despite the growth in supranational organizations. 7. 8. A: Great question. The UN has become, for all practical purposes, the venue for Gap states to complain to the Core. 9. 10. TEDBlog: Thomas Barnett's bracing talk on the future of war.
Global Issues Last night in the TED office: War Stories War isn’t easy to talk about. TED’s Juliet Blake knows this first-hand — she is the daughter of German Jews who never spoke about the war that wiped out so many members of their family. And yet, that devastation is exactly why it is so important to have conversations about the worst of human experiences. […] Live from TEDGlobal 2013 Making peace is a marathon: May El-Khalil at TEDGlobal 2013 The founder of the Beirut Marathon, May El-Khalil tells us how personal tragedy led her to create a peaceful haven in her all-too-often war-torn country. Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace. Daily Politics Blog - Political Blogging.
IT Conversations: Thomas Barnett - Emerging Worldviews. Professor Thomas P.M. Barnett is a Senior Strategic Researcher in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College. Currently, Thomas is on temporary assignment as the Assistant for Strategic Futures, Office of Force Transformation (OFT), Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he is working with OFT Director Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski (USN, ret.) on a cluster of strategic concepts that link change in the international security environment to the imperative of transforming U.S. military capabilities to meet future threats.
Thomas has published a number of articles explaining these strategic concepts, which he presents comprehensively in a briefing entitled, "A Future Worth Creating: Defense Transformation in the New Security Environment. " At the Naval War College, he serves as Director of the NewRuleSets.Project, an ambitious effort to draw new "maps" of power and influence in the world economy so as to expand the U.S.