+ Chirol adds to his Mapping the Gap series with part 5: Italy, Netherlands, France.

+ ZenPundit engages the debate between Max Borders and Tom: Building institutions vs. nations or states

+ Chirol compares Tom's thought to early US involvement in the Caribbean based on Chirol's reading of Max Boot's 'The Savage Wars of Peace'.

+ Brian Hertzer has posted excerpts from his paper The Great Enlistment: Missions and Ministry in the 21st Century, which he writes is greatly influenced by Tom's thinking.

+ A big thanks to Sun Bin for his mini reviews of the Washington Observer's coverage of Tom.

+ And, finally, this nice quote from Penguin Monkey (in reference to the Putin post):

I really like Tom Barnett. It's like if Hemingway was a policy wonk. It really is that level of greatness.