Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog

Tom got referenced again in US News and World Report's Capital Commerce weblog in the post Globalization: Bin Laden's vs. the West's. Tom's part:

Geopolitical strategist and consultant Tom Barnett, a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College, says the jihadist menace is, in reality...

"...'global' resistance that's really all about the Gap, where globalization is coming in...and reformatting traditional societies that are unprepared for its new rule sets. Radical extremists (typically young men) rise up in resistance to this Borg-like assimilation, believing it's evil and driven by infidels. They advocate a civilizational apartheid, and their dream expression is the resurrection of the ancient caliphate stretching across the whole of the predominately Islamic societies of North Africa to southeast Asia...Faced with a globalizing integration process, it 'goes global' itself. The answer to this threat is to make globalization global, meaning it's essentially a race."

Thanks to Jack Slovic for sending this in.