A New Map of the World

“I will propose a new map of the world…It will not be an East-West map.  It will not be a North-South map.  It will be a map that shows you which regions are functioning within globalization’s expanding web of connectivity and which remain fundamentally disconnected from that process.  It will show you that where globalization has spread, there you will find stable governments that neither require our periodic military interventions nor warrant our consideration as threats.  But look beyond globalization’s frontier, and there you will find the failed states that command our attention, the rogue states that demand our vigilance, and the endemic conflicts that fuel the terror we now recognize as the dominant threat not just to America’s future security but to globalization’s continued advance.” — Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map, pp.121-122.