WPR's The New Rules: Building Real States to Empower the Bottom Billion

Monday, October 4, 2010 at 10:26AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in China, Core/Gap map, US foreign policy, WPR Column, development

America's top African diplomat recently signaled Washington's desire to establish more official contacts with the autonomous region of Somaliland, which sits within the internationally recognized borders of the failed state known as Somalia. Meanwhile, both our Agency for International Development and the Pentagon's recently established Africa Command worry about Sudan's upcoming vote on formally splitting the country in two. For a country that has sworn off nation-building, it's interesting to see just how hard it is for America to remain on the sidelines while globalization remaps so much of the developing world.

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Article originally appeared on Thomas P.M. Barnett (https://thomaspmbarnett.com/).