Tom's latest column is up over at the KNS:

Feel insecure about global security? No need

By THOMAS P.M. BARNETT

March 26, 2006

We have never lived in a more peaceful world than we do today — never.

I know that statement goes against everything you've been told by the mass media, and I realize it contradicts the amazing climate of fear that's gripped this country since 9/11.



But it's absolutely true.

Our world today is more crowded than it's ever been, and yet we've never had a smaller percentage of humanity either engaging in or preparing for mass violence. We're not entering an age of perpetual war, as some would have it. Instead, we're moving into the century that will feature more peace than any before it...

Tom's comment:

This was my first attempt at doing a data-heavy piece, and the typical columnist trick of essentially blogging somebody else's cool report. Most of the work came in reading the report. Writing the piece was pretty easy.

I expanded the byline a bit this time by listing the blog as well. Not sure how the hard copy read, but hard to beat the hot links to this site.