Better connected = better correction

OP-ED: Only Makes You Stronger: Why the recession bolstered America, Walter Russell Mead, The New Republic, February 04, 2009

Nice historical analysis that says simply, the more connected you are, the better the correction over the long haul, whereas the less connected you are, the more the damage is lasting.

(Thanks: Lexington Green)

Comments

[Bill Cherry]

Mead seems to say that bad economic times also increase the possibility of great power war.

And he lists Pakistan, India, China and Russia as countries of concern re: this possibility today.

Should the US military consider this new factor (current bad economic times increase risk of great power war) in their present planning?

[Bill Cherry]

Tom:

Mead also seems to imply that we have entered -- or may be about to enter -- a post-9/11, post-Globalization-as-we-now-know-it, and post-Pentagon's New Map world.

Has the current global economic meltdown shifted the world beneath our feet so much that we must now consider ourselves in a different context -- a different paradigm -- and, therefore, must contemplate and devise a new or different grand strategy?

Thanks.

[Tom Barnett]

As always as of late, you seek permission to move on, Bill.

Granted.

If the current crisis ends your appreciation of my thinking, then that's all you need to know about the depth of that appreciation.

Time to look elsewhere for answers.