Sitemap - 2023 - Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

Sunday Cutdown V (12/31/2023)

The CSPAN brief transcribed, with slides

The crystalizing climate-change event (imagined over a decade ago)

When you run out of options, you cannibalize assets

Australia Demonstrates One Form of Climate Change-Driven Geopolitical Union That I Propose in "America's New Map"

CSPAN show of Deloitte-hosted book launch

The CSPAN slide deck

Sunday Cutdown IV (12/24/2023)

A Splendid Little Report

"A Warning Written in Wood"

To "win" Latin America is to fix its crime problem

Even within the unmanned conflict zone, the asymmetrically cheaper wins

An old system facing an unprecedented challenge

No jumping the line!

Sunday Cutdown III (12/17/2023)

The review I've been waiting for

Which superpower brand is winning?

COP28's two little words

Depopulation + warming lands = climate migrant settlement zones

Beware of one-sided storytelling about other superpowers' threatening behaviors

My appearance on the "America Trends" podcast

Sunday Cutdown II (12/10/203)

The Research Paper That Got Me Fired from a Chinese Think Tank

Open the Kingdom

Getting real on China

I've got two letters for you, India. Are you listening?

The waiting game on Russia

The Autonomous Singularity

Sunday Cutdown I (12/3/2023)

What Kissinger accomplished

What Kissinger accomplished

The great China-to-India switch begins

There are normal and healthy limits to globalization

The switch-to-subscription is upon us

Disbelieving the future

The matriarchy ruling China's future

Embracing our inner mudblood

The inevitable diminishment of Gaza -- revisited

Disease velocity

Being thankful for globalization's resilience

Middle Earth's disappearing lands

Connectivity versus content

Globalization and Climate Change Sitting in a Tree...

Networking the global middle class is an end in itself

When rising oceans means less freshwater

My long conversation with Jim Fallows about "America's New Map"

A glimpse of China's Orwellian present/future

My appearance on PBS show "Story in the Public Square"

Appearance on Dan Skinner's Conversations show on Kansas Public Radio (KPR)

Here come the South Asians

Platform-centric naval warfare grows ever more obsolete

What is America's purpose right now?

Depopulation arrives just in time

"The World is on Fire"

The logic of moving South Korea to the kiddies' nuclear table

The growing lack of patriotism and national identification among the young is all about negative experiences and poor government performance

Earth's Sixth Great Extinction Period

The History of Tomorrow

Nuclear powers get to war against non-nuclear powers

The Growing Adaptation Deficit

Why America Can't Be Bothered to Fix Its Immigration System

Future Ruins: The World Tour

The Youth Bulge of All Youth Bulges

DEFAERO Strategy Series [Oct 24, ’23] w/ Dr. Thomas Barnett

Tie another string of red yarn around this thumbtack

Radical acceptance of radical transparency in warfare

Positive externalities caused by US-style globalization: democratizing trade & longer life-expectancy

The curious case of "climate velocity"

Climate Change Is the Superpower Competition This Century

Why lean in on climate change right now?

Global Throughlines

Coming soon

Ep 5 - Unlocking the Potential of Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere

Ep 4 - The Superpower Showdown: Who Will Win the Global Rules Race?

Ep 3 - Integrating North and South: A New Strategic Dialogue for Global Leadership

Ep 2 - America's Gift to the World: Globalization, Climate Change, and the Middle Class

Ep 1 - Globalization's Tipping Point: US vs. China in Cyberspace