Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
Barnett, Thomas P.M. "The New Rules." World Politics Review, World Politics Review LLC, 2010.
The administration of George W. Bush was the most unpopular in American history amongst most of the countries of the world. By the end of his second term, Bush himself was the most unpopular President in America since polls were taken to measure it. However, when Barack Obama went to Berlin, as a senator and presidential candidate he was very warmly received with a crowd of over 200,000 Germans turning out in Berlin to hear his speech.
Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former chief analyst at Wikistrat. He developed a geopolitical theory that divided the world into "the Functioning Core" and the "Non-Integrating Gap" that made him particularly notable prior to the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq when he wrote an article for Esquire in support of the military action entitled "The Pentagon's New Map" (which would later become the title of a book that would elaborate on his geopolitical theories). The central thesis of his geopolitical theory is that the connections the globalization brings between countries (including network connectivity, financial transactions, and media flows) are synonymous with those countries with stable governments, rising standards of living, and "more deaths by suicide than by murder". These countries form the Functioning Core. These regions contrast with those where globalization has not yet penetrated, which is synonymous with political repression, poverty, disease, and mass-murder, and conflict. These areas make up the Non-Integrating Gap.
