Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

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"America's New Map" Deleted Scene #1

"America's New Map" Deleted Scene #1

Throughline #5: Norman Angell with Nukes

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Jim Nuttle’s early conceptual drawing for this thread

This “throughline" (which would have been retitled a “thread” if it had survived) revived a concept (“Norman Angels with nukes”) that I first used in The Pentagon’s New Map. It was set within an early Chapter 5 entitled “Globalization’s Consolidation.”

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This was all before the Great Reordering called for my BenBella publisher Glenn Yeffeth, in his 30-page (!) “editorial letter” regarding my first-draft submission in the fall of 2022.

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Here’s what he said about this subsequently deleted thread:

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