Thomas Barnett's presentation to Pop!Tech -- Emerging Worldviews is now available on-line in several formats at
www.itconversations.com/shows/detail238.html

Barnett represents some of the brightest and most rational thinking on global policy that the U.S. has to offer. His views are illuminating, engaging and point to a strategy for winning the peace against insurgent terrorist enemies. He is erudite, non-isolationist and suprisingly sanguine about the rise of nascent middle powers like the "ABC's" (ie: Argentina, Brazil, Chile). Barnett puts the boot to the notion of America as an empire builder. The U.S. has traditionally sought -- and continues to seek -- stability. Increasingly America is seeing in the global community like-minded "been there, done that" attitudes from most countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Where "networks" are free to develop and flourish (ie: trade, entertainment, information, monetary and communication networks) there are no threats to world and American security. While he makes his point with the precision of a military scholar -- which he is -- Barnett has a wrapper of sociology, politics and pragmatism about him that offer encouraging hope about the kind of engaged intellectual debate that has, is and will stir around U.S. military and security policy. Not even Tom Clancy could have envisioned a Jack Ryan as intellectually ripped as this. Listen, think, engage; this is a Podcast peak.