Bush’s dealings with China, in terms of encouraging that country to become a “stakeholder” in global security, as a success that is “greater than the Bush administration’s failures in Iraq.” He argues, for example, that history will judge former President George W. Barnett’s smaller, more granular ideas are the ones that catch your eye. We’re also given “Barnett’s 14 points to remember,” a “seven-step recalibration process” to adjust the country’s faulty strategic trajectory and a list of 14 “shifts” or “tipping points” he sees in the near future.Īs “Great Powers” rumbles forward, Mr. In his new book he delivers “the seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney” (lust, greed, pride, etc.), as well as a “12-step recovery program for American grand strategy,” based on the Alcoholics Anonymous credo that one needs to admit past mistakes and make amends. Barnett wedges his ideas into user-friendly lists. He says so much that he’s in danger of saying nothing.Īs often as possible, Mr. In “Great Powers” he cleans out his mental closet, spinning out ideas about everything from religion to health care to transportation to milk supplies. Barnett’s big hedgehog idea, as a thinker he’s decidedly a fox. One problem with playing parent is that, as the old saying goes, you’re only as happy as your unhappiest child. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.” “Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage.
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“It took us 89 years to free the slaves and 189 years to guarantee African-Americans the right to vote,” he writes. Barnett suggests that we need to realize that “we’re playing against ‘younger’ versions of ourselves in many instances.” He counsels a kind of parental Zen patience. When it comes to globalization’s rough patches, particularly when America is confronting emerging countries or belligerent would-be superpowers, Mr. Barnett “the most influential defense intellectual writing these days.”
It became popular with military officers, so much so that the Washington Post columnist David Ignatius called Mr. “The Pentagon’s New Map” sold well for a number of reasons. The enemy “is neither a religion (Islam) nor a place (the Middle East), but a condition - disconnectedness,” he explained.
Barnett’s sane idea: bring the world’s rowdy, hormonal, emotionally tortured teenage countries to the adult table, and teach them to prosper through capitalism, cooperation and openness. Barnett’s “new map” split the world into two basic categories: a “functioning core” of nations that are plugged into the global economy, and a “nonintegrating gap” of countries - in the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere - that are chaotic and dangerous because they are cut off from the world’s established markets and institutions. Barnett’s book was as much about globalization as about military deep-think. Barnett, a former professor at the United States Naval War College, had a surprise best seller in 2004 with “The Pentagon’s New Map.” The title was mildly deceptive Mr.
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