WPR's The New Rules: Globalization's Staying Power a Triumph of American 'Hubris'
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 9:48AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Africa, Asian integration, China, LATAM, US, WPR Column, globalization, grand strategy
There’s no question that globalization, in its modern American form of expanding free trade, just went through its worst crisis to date.  But while economists debate whether or not we in the West are collectively heading toward a 1938-like “second dip,” it’s important to realize just how myopic our fears are about the future of a world economy that America went out of its way to create, defend, and grow these past seven decades.
Read the entire column, which you can consider my oblique response to Peter Beinart's "Icarus Syndrome" book, at World Politics Review.
See the references for my inspiration on this piece.
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