The Realignment

410 | Thomas P.M. Barnett: How Globalization, North-South Migration, Climate Change, and Demographic Collapse Will Define America's New Map

Episode Summary

Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse and the Pentagon's New Map trilogy, joins The Realignment. Thomas and Marshall discuss why the world is shifting from a 20th century East-West orientation to a North-South orientation in the 21st century, the impact of demographic collapse across the industrialized world, how America can reconcile itself with the fact that it no longer controls globalization's path, and why the superpower competition to deliver growth and security to the rising global middle class will define the rest of the century.

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Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse and the Pentagon's New Map trilogy, joins The Realignment. Thomas and Marshall discuss why the world is shifting from a 20th century East-West orientation to a North-South orientation in the 21st century, the impact of demographic collapse across the industrialized world, how America can reconcile itself with the fact that it no longer controls globalization's path, and why the superpower competition to deliver growth and security to the rising global middle class will define the rest of the century.