Time's Battleland: Future grand strategists speak: Why US withdrawal from Afghanistan would stabilize Pakistan
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 6:15AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Time's Battleland, US foreign policy, Wikistrat, terrorism

In my continuing role as Head Judge  for the online strategy community Wikistrat's month-long International Grand Strategy Competition featuring roughly 30 teams from top-flight universities and think tanks around the world, I get to peruse all manner of provocative thought from some of tomorrow's best and brightest thinkers.  And yeah, full disclosure, I get paid to judge as the firm's chief analyst.

Well, this last week, our participating teams drew up elaborate national trajectories and regional trajectories for their 13 countries (Brazil, China, EU, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and US), and the two entries that really jumped out at me in their immediate dueling were the two Pakistani teams populated with grad students from Claremont Graduate University (CA) and Yale (CT).  Let me tell you why.

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