The Pentagon's New Map
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Read on Hacker NewsThe Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas P. M. Barnett. It's like The World is Flat on steroids. It's probably even more pro free trade. It's the most optimistic look at world affairs I've ever seen. The idea is that trade ties countries together and makes them stop fighting.
Read on Hacker News…administration function was interesting and matches what Barnett is proposing in "Pentagon's New Map." It's not the far future space opera of "Marooned in Real Time" or "A Fire Upon the Deep"--both of which I also enjoyed--but it's about a lot more than "some old people trying keep some books from being destroyed."
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