Sitemap - 2024 - Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines
Sunday Cutdown LIII (1 December 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (33/54)
[Rerun] Embracing our inner mudblood
Summary of SIM scenario-building exercise on the future of AI
Mounting proof of a North-South security world
Sunday Cutdown LII (24 November 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (34/54)
Slide deck from scenario-building workshop on the future of AI
Society for Information Management (SIM) Tech Exec 2024 slide deck
The road not taken on climate change
Sunday Cutdown LI[b] (17 November 2024)
Sunday Cutdown LI[a] (16 November 2024)
China's digital colonialization of the Global South
Trump 2.0 comes roaring out of the gate
The video from my OODAcon24 presentation (6 Nov)
It's go time for Greater Israel
Everybody likes an apocryphal story
Sunday Cutdown L (10 November 2024)
OODAcon24 slide deck (PDF download fixed)
An additive versus a subtractive presidency
Sunday Cutdown XLIX (3 November 2024)
Stories Behind the Illustrations
The Boomers' unrequited love for World War II/III
"Caste" author Isabelle Wilkerson recognizes America's 50/50/50 journey
The greatest real estate transaction in human history
Sunday Cutdown XLVIII (28 October 2024)
The true West has been racially integrating for half a millennium
Worst-casing the post-election mischief
Climate change puts ALL species on the move!
The fantasy of Putin weaponizing BRICS
Sunday Cutdown XLVII (20 October 2024)
Is China's new business ops model a clever take on US military operational ethos?
The end of the two-state solution
An Americas-First Grand Strategy
Branded House (China) versus House of Brands (United States)
Climate change hitting home(s)
The radical-acceptance election
Sunday Cutdown XLVI (13 October 2024)
Distinguished Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin-Madison
The case for Chinese global leadership
Dim view of "small yard, high fence"
Dems v. Reps running for, and running, the White House
Israel's desired regional ending-of-state
Sunday Cutdown XLV (6 October 2024)
Immigrants as problem, immigrants as solution (extended track)
Immigrants as problem, immigrants as solution
Israel's quest for escalation dominance
Watch my 1 Oct. Rayliant Global Advisors webinar with CEO Jason Hsu
Today's webinar with Rayliant Global Advisors
Jihadism's shifting center of gravity
Sunday Cutdown XLIV (29 September 2024)
Upcoming engagements & two visual treats
Globalization's next competition: guardrails on or off?
Africa's demographic/climatic collision
Building the middle by raising the bar
America's post-Cold War modeled behavior killed non-strategic deterrence
Sign-up for my Rayliant Global Advisors webinar with Jason Hsu
Sunday Cutdown XLIII (22 September 2024)
Projecting ahead on election-related tumult/violence
The Newport "America's New Map" presentation video
Syracuse University Maxwell School slide deck
Israel's decision to go decidedly uptempo with the Axis of Resistance
Populism and assassinations go hand-in-hand across history
China continues to hit 'em where we ain't
Sunday Cutdown XLII (15 September 2024)
China ends international adoptions
"America does not take its political cues from the likes of Hungary."
Thank you sir, may I have another?
Biting off more than Xi can chew
Sunday Cutdown XLI (8 September 2024)
Today's agenda at the Pell Center, Salve Regina University in Newport RI
Here we go again on the pacing threat
China and India as globalization's package deal
Israelis' breaking point reached
Sunday Cutdown XL (1 September 2024)
The mid-century collisions to come
Climate change as a "threat multiplier"
Xi's dream: World needs China but China doesn't need world
Sunday Cutdown XXXIX (25 August 2024)
The future, Mr. Rango, the future!
Drawing the line on associations in a multipolar world
What we are losing with climate change
The return of the Scoop Jackson Democrats
Measuring "climate shift" across the world's oceans
Sunday Cutdown XXXVIII (b) 18 August 2024
Sunday Cutdown XXXVIII (a) 17 August 2024
Change vote, generation vote, future vote
Pics (and a couple of themes) from the National Public Pension Fund Association (NPPFA) meeting
Slide deck from National Public Pension Fund Association's (NPPFA) "National Round Table Conference"
Sunday Cutdown XXXVII (11 August 2024)
Speaking in Rhode Island on 5 September
Climate Change Denialism as an Enduring Belief System
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Our sudden concern over American fertility
Sunday Cutdown XXXVI (4 August 2024)
Optimism wins because pessimism is not in the US nature
Slide deck from How to Become a Grand Strategist master class
Slide deck from Syracuse/Maxwell master strategy class
Sunday Cutdown XXXV (b) 28 July 2024
Sunday Cutdown XXXV (a) 27 July 2024
Aging Global North versus Still-Youthful Global South
Win Globalization, Win AI, Rule the World
SHORTCUT: Revisiting Y2K ... I mean CrowdStrike!
Revisiting Y2K ... I mean CrowdStrike!
Triangulating the race for POTUS
Sunday Cutdown XXXIV (b) 21 July 2024
Sunday Cutdown XXXIV (a) 20 July 2024
Slide deck from the Times Group's India Leadership Council (ILC) presentation
Addressing the Times of India's India Leadership Council (ILC)
Broad framing as a strategic contextualizing tool on agriculture
Spin the dial and see where your children will live six decades hence
Sunday Cutdown XXXIII (14 July 2024)
There is a very big place in America for this type of behavior
Finally some vindication on some ancient disinformation
Climate change brings national security home -- for good
Oh sure! Now it's "Putin's Multipolarity"
Slide deck from Army-Navy Club
Train's engine can only travel as fast as its caboose
Sunday Cutdown XXXII (7 July 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (32/54)
To be a superpower is to have a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
Walking and chewing gum at the same time
Sunday Cutdown XXXI (30 June 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (31/54)
Slide deck from Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) symposium
Livestream my panel at Los Alamos National Lab's conference Wed (330-5pm Eastern)
Follow the demographic dividend
A great dog and even better friend
Sunday Cutdown XXX (b) 23 June 2024
Sunday Cutdown XXX (a) 22 June 2024
The future of South-North migration -- on our current trajectory
The superpower brand war rages on
Sunday Cutdown XXIX (16 June 2023)
The Story Behind the Illustration (30/54)
When champagne isn't from Champagne and is still champagne?
Biden scheming to make Russia-v-Ukraine a chronic condition
The real "good old days" we soon shall miss
Organized versus unorganized economic regions
The logic of proximity increasingly driving globalization's evolution
Sunday Cutdown XXVIII (b) 9 June 20243
Sunday Cutdown XXVIII (a) 8 June 2024
Ranking superpowers by demand power across world regions
How either-or analysis is harmful
A preview of coming distractions
Sunday Cutdown XXVII (2 June 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (29/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (28/54)
Broad Framing the Digitalization of Globalization
Broad Framing the Global Majority Middle Class
Broad Framing Global Demographics
Broad Framing The Superpower Brand Wars
Sunday Cutdown XXVI (26 May 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (27/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (26/54)
Broad Framing North-South economic relations
Announcing Throughline's Broad Framing Initiative
Two threats, one devouring the other
Israel's endgame on Gaza appears to be on track
Sunday Cutdown XXV (19 May 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (25/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (24/54)
Purple Hearts as a measure of cost and loss and sacrifice and achievement
When Rising Powers Operate Overseas Ports: Natural Supply-Chain Management or Threat to US Order?
The Superpower Competition to Integrate the Global South
Left to their own (medical) devices, societies will generate their own gender imbalances
The Story Behind the Illustration (23/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (22/54)
Industry 5.0 --The Centaur Evolution
Biden's stick-and-carrot on Rafah
The digitalization of globalization
The steady, predictable conflict that is Israel's demolition of Gaza (hardly a "world on fire")
Broad-framing our "world on fire" wars (here, Russia-v-Ukraine)
Global footprint of the "America's New Map" Massive Open Online Course
The Story Behind the Illustration (21/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (20/54)
Slide deck from 1 May roundtable
When economic connectivity emboldens
Open online "America's New Map" roundtable today
South Meets North: How can the Global North Best Adapt to the Wave of Climate Migrants
Resettle or Repel: How Will the Global North Manage Climate-Induced Displacement?
The Story Behind the Illustration (19/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (18/54)
1 May open online "America's New Map" roundtable
Climate Exodus: How Many People Will Be Displaced?
The drone capability projected
Drone terrorism will soon arrive in US
The Extinction Countdown: How Many Species Will be Lost to Climate Change?
Climate Crisis in the Tropics: How is “Middle Earth” Transformed ... For the Worse?
Sunday Cutdown XXI (21 April 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (17/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (16/54)
Coming to a battlefield near India: The Military Singularity
Earth Transformed: What is America's grand strategy on climate change?
Save us from the conspiracy strategists!
Israel's calculations on Iran and Gaza
Sunday Cutdown XX (14 April 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (15/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (14/54)
Broad-framing America's current labor shortage
Announcing the "America's New Map" Massive Online Open Course (MOOC)
The pros and cons of Pan-Americanism
Sunday Cutdown XIX (7 April 2024)
YouTube playlist of speech videos
The Story Behind the Illustration (13/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (12/54)
The Atlantic Council on US-Latin America/Caribbean relations
You might be a super aged society if ...?
Broad framing the combined China/Russia threat
Climate change challenges India
China + India --> Almonds = Bee Recovery?
Sunday Cutdown XVIII (31 March 2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (11/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (10/54)
Speaking at Virginia Tech to the Corps of Cadets
Racking and stacking inconceivables
Climate change is coming for your sweet tooth
The perfect proving ground for the Military Singularity
The Story Behind the Illustration (9/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (8/54)
Speaking at Virginia Tech's Corps of Cadets
Population fears and immigration fears are the same thing
Waking up to climate adaptation
The workaround world meets wrapped-around-the-axle America
Sunday Cutdown XVI (3/17/2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (7/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (6/54)
Another glimpse of how profoundly climate change will reshape Middle Earth
China’s quantum grand strategy
Forcing non-Chinese ownership on TikTok is reasonable, with banning threat as the "stick"
Extending membership north-to-south
The Story Behind the Illustration (5/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (4/54)
Biden's SOTU worked -- sort of
Conflicting lessons learned on conflict
A US Grand Strategy on Climate Change
The Anthropocene fails to summit the bureaucratic scientific ladder
The NYT's Timeless Nuclear Porn
The Story Behind the Illustration (3/54)
The Story Behind the Illustration (2/54)
Putin the Pious's threats grow more shrill
Glimpsing China's quantum grand strategy
Denying and demonizing our most potent superpower
Recasting the global economic system
Sunday Cutdown XIII (1/25/2024)
The Story Behind the Illustration (1/54)
Brian Hunt video review of "America's New Map"
America's Big War/Small War sine wave
When climate change hits your pocketbook
Reject the future, retreat into the past
Sunday Cutdown XII (2/18/2024)
Throughline's "India's New Map" canvas
My professional take on India's Global Business Summit
Press coverage of India's Global Business Summit
The global future is north-south integration
The slide deck from India's Global Business Summit
The Global Business Summit (India) presentation (video)
Fear is the path to the dark side
How the Right ruined immigration
My follow-the-car globalization logic recast for toy cars
The Pandora's box we open by letting Ukraine lose
China switching gears on Latin America & the Global South
Now, Suddenly, China's Nuclear Buildup Negates All Previous Reality About Strategic Warfare -- NOT!
"America's New Map" Deleted Scene #2
Speaking out, but looking for advice
East-West versus North-South right now in US
Where have I seen this before?
The diminishment of Gaza revisited -- again
"America's New Map" Deleted Scene #1
The right way to view globalization's current evolution
Where I come down on Barbenheimer
Gen Z as a shift that keeps on shifting
The believe-nothing-and-nobody election cycle
Plotting "Dairy's New Map" with a hundred or so Wisconsin dairy farmers
Foreign diplomats: America exits, stage far right
Freedom of travel as key indicator of business connectivity and economic development
The integrating Core and the isolating Gap ... within America
India, China, Japan, America -- all in a row
Sunday Cutdown VII (1/14/2024)
How to become a grand strategist
Trump's theory/threat of governance is pure minority rule
Where does global growth go next?
They make a minefield and call it peace
Why China and the US don't need to go to war
David Ignatius on our war-ravaged world!
Why I, as a strategist, choose to be a synthesizer