"AMERICA'S NEW MAP" BY THOMAS p. m. BARNETT
A brilliant, highly readable, and timely guide to what makes America great. Barnett presents a compelling path to healing our nation with a challenge bigger than ourselves. The best way to predict the future is to create it, and America’s new map does both. "
BRUCE MCINDOE
About the book
Bruce is honoured to support Thomas, his close friend and industry peer in his upcoming book - America's New Road Map - Restoring Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse.
Three tectonic and inevitable shifts have left the world at a crossroads. North America is poised to either re-emerge as a global leader or turn back in time, ceding power and influence to competitors. The 21st century unleashed unprecedented global changes—to its climate, the demographic makeup of its nations, and the very nature of allegiance in the digital age. With its global influence waning, America must re-evaluate its approach to globalization if it wishes to remain a leader.
Thomas 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. In these riveting pages, Barnett offers a deep, yet accessible dive into the three shifts that have lead us to this point:
- As climate change ravages countries closest to the equator, global dynamics are shifting from an East-West emphasis to North-South in the greatest geopolitical transformation our world has yet experienced—and the Western Hemisphere is far better positioned to exploit this radical reorientation than the East.
- Aging demographics worldwide favour more slowly aging nations, including the US, while challenging rapidly aging nations like China, incentivizing countries best to delay that transition by integrating younger, faster-growing populations into their ranks.
- In combination, these two tectonic forces collide with a third: the exploding consumption of an expanding—and now majority—global middle class, the bulk of whom reside along the increasingly unstable North-South frontier.
DR. THOMAS P.M.BARNETT
Thomas is a leading security geopolitical strategist and bestselling author, who has worked in U.S. national security circles since the end of the Cold War. He is known for his work at the Naval War College and at the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense under the direction of the late Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski (U.S. Navy, Ret.) – the father of “network-centric warfare.”
Thomas presently serves as Principal Business Strategist at Throughline, a Washington DC-based enterprise design and strategy firm that serves the U.S. national security community, major U.S. government agencies, multinational corporations, and non-profits. Dr. Barnett’s 2023 book, America’s New Map, is a unique product of the author’s deep collaboration with the firm’s senior leadership, graphic artists, and content designers.
Over his career, Thomas has generated more than 500 publications and has delivered more than 1,000 speeches across all 50 U.S. states and 50 countries. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.
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