America's new map Restoring our global leadership in an era of climate change and demographic collapse
Book - 2023
"In America's New Map: Restoring Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse, Thomas P.M. Barnett, bestselling author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century and acclaimed geo-strategist, offers seven throughlines to frame and redefine the ambitions and posture of these United States, setting our Union on a bold-but-entirely-familiar national trajectory"--
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Dallas, TX :
BenBella Books, Inc
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xix, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781637744291
- Foreword
- Preface-Globalization's Throughlines: Restoring US Global Leadership in a Turbulent Era
- Throughline 1. Frankenstein's Monster: Coming to Grips with Our Most Powerful Creation
- 1. The Empty Throne: Globalization Comes with Rules but No Ruler
- 2. The Eye-of-the-Storm Fallacy: Americans' Poor Understanding of Globalization
- 3. The World at War: Our Successful Downsizing of Conflict Over the Years
- 4. Cold Wars as Comfort Food: The Pentagon's Need for a Near-Peer Competitor
- 5. Nuclear Clubbing: America's Obsession with Preventing Proliferation
- 6. State-on-State War in the Post-Cold War Era: How America's New Rules Come Back to Haunt Us
- 7. Symmetrizing the Global War on Terror (GWOT): Our Badasses Are Better Than Your Bad Actors
- 8. Americas New Map: Climate Change as Globalizations Next Ordering Principle
- Throughline 2. Climate Changes Everything: A Horizontal World Made Vertical
- 9. When Wide Beat Tall: Why Humans See an East-West World
- 10. Middle Earth Is Doomed! North Integrates South or Faces Its Disintegration!
- 11. Poleward Bound (I Wish I Were …): Climate Change Puts Every Species on the Move
- 12. Go North, Young Man! The Geopolitical Upside of Climate Change
- Throughline 3. Destiny's Child: How Demographics Determine Globalizations Winners, Losers, and Future
- 13. The Golden Ticket: Cashing In a Demographic Dividend Is Hardly Guaranteed
- 14. The Secret History of Globalization: Follow the Demographic Dividend
- 15. Globalization's Prime Directive: Accommodate Peacefully Rising Economic Pillars
- 16. The Dorian Gray of Great Powers: By Staying Young(ish), America Stays Relevant
- 17. America's 50/50/50 Journey: From 1950 to 2050, Whites Fall to Less Than 50 Percent of Population
- 18. Making America Great Again: Drunk on Nostalgia, We're on a Road to Nowhere
- Throughline 4. Superpower Brand Wars: The Global Middle Seeks Protection from the Future
- 19. It's Not Personal, It's Strictly Business: Superpowers Compete to Revise Global Rules
- 20. National Affiliation Does Not Grow Out of the Barrel of a Gun: Irredentism as Superpower Brand Failure
- 21. Stuck in the Middle with You: When the Middle Class Is Happy, Everybody's Happy
- 22. Go, China. Go! Beijing's Methodical Approach to Geopolitics
- 23. One Belt to Rule Them All, One Road to Find Them, One Initiative to Bring Them All and Infrastructure Bind Them
- 24. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Is Asia Big Enough for Both Rising India and Risen China?
- 25. Leave the Gun, Take the Biometrics: How China and America Project Power Differently
- 26. Pacification by Gamification: Ruling the World One Cowed Citizen at a Time
- 27. Sensor Chip Meets Censorship: China's 5G Telecom Offering Is a Trojan Horse
- Throughline 5. Globalizations Consolidation Is Hemispheric Integration: America's Goal of Stable Multipolarity Preordained This Era
- 28. Nations in the Cloud: Globalization's Digitalization Meets Cyber Sovereignty
- 29. The World in Three Vertical Slices: Why America Should Choose the Door Marked "West"
- 30. In Globalization, Demand-Not Supply-Is Power: So, the Biggest Markets Command the Most Power
- 31. Strength in Numbers: America Does Not Stack Up Well Against the Competition
- 32. You Will Be Assimilated, Resistance Is Futile: America Is Finally Forced to Join Its Own Neighborhood
- 33. The Geopolitics of Belonging: The EU's Model of Political Integration Works
- Throughline 6. The West Is the Best: Our Hemisphere Is Advantageously Situated for What Comes Next
- 34. Energy Independence Ain't All It's Fracked Up to Be, but It's Why the United States Stopped Obsessing Over the Middle East
- 35. Water, Water Everywhere but Not Enough to Drink: Why Tall Now Beats Wide
- 36. The West Feeds the Rest: Climate Change Elevates Food Security to National Security
- 37. Global Value Chains Regionalize Amidst Superpower Brand Wars: America Disregards This at Its Peril
- 38. West Hem Civ 101: Having Outgrown Our Parentage, the Americas Stand Tall
- 39. Nobody Does It Better: These United States as Globalization in Miniature
- 40. Winning the Twenty-First Century: Citizenship Is About Identity, and Identity Is About to Change
- 41. The Climate Redemption: Get Busy Adding Stars or Get Busy Losing Them
- 42. Were Still the One: The Durability of America's Superpower Brand Appeal
- Throughline 7. The Americanist Manifesto: Summoning the Vision and Courage to Remap Our Hemisphere's Indivisible Future
- 43. Thesis: American Acceptionalism
- 44. Antithesis: American Apartheid
- 45. Synthesis: Mil Millones de Americanos
- Coda: An Americas-First Grand Strategy: Crowdsourcing the Right Story. Choosing the Right Paths
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
- Index