Realigning America's grand strategy to a world transforming By THOMAS P.M. BARNETT
I'm writing a book right now that tackles the question, "What really constitutes grand strategy in the age of globalization?" By that I mean a vision of a desirable future world and your country's favorable position therein, plus a plan to get there that logically employs your nation's available resources. I ask that proximate question to explore the one that's ultimately on everybody's mind today: Where do we go from here?
America's current definition of grand strategy seems to be working the shoulders of globalization's Bell curve: obsessing over terrorists on one end and democracy on the other.
Global terrorism constitutes a tiny slice of reality, while democracy, sitting atop Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is hardly the historical showstopper right now that America thinks it is. Even without any additional wave of democratization, our world is transforming thanks to a tsunami of unleashed market activity, commodity demand and investment flows.
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