Military strategist Barnett provides a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century. Building on the works of Thomas L. Friedman and Francis Fukuyama, and then taking a leap beyond, this book offers hope at a crucial yet uncertain time in history. -- From publisher description.

Some copies are Berkley Books, 2005 paperback edition,435 p., 23 cm.

Preface: An Operating Theory of the World --1 -- 1. New Rule Sets -- 9 -- Playing Jack Ryan -- New Rules for a New Era -- Present at the Creation -- A Future Worth Creating -- 2. Rise of the "Lesser Includeds" -- 59 -- Manthorpe Curve -- Fracturing of the Security Market -- Rise of Asymmetrical Warfare -- How 9/11 Saved the Pentagon from Itself -- 3. Disconnectedness Defines Danger -- 107 -- How I Learned to Think Horizontally -- Mapping Globalization's Frontier -- Minding the Gap -- To Live and Die in the Gap -- Different Worlds, Different Rule Sets -- Why I Hate the "Arc of Instability" -- 4. Core and the Gap -- 191 -- Military-Market Link -- Flow of People, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Population Bomb -- Flow of Energy, or Whose Blood for Whose Oil? -- Flow of Money, or Why We Won't Be Going to War with China -- Flow of Security, or How America Must Keep Globalization in Balance -- 5. New Ordering Principle -- 247 -- Overtaken by Events -- Rise of System Perturbations -- Greater Inclusive -- Big Bang as Strategy -- 6. Global Transaction Strategy -- 295 -- You're Ruining My Military! -- Essential Transaction -- System Administrator -- American Way of War -- 7. Myths We Make (I Will Now Dispel) -- 341 -- Myth of Global Chaos -- Myth of America as Globocop -- Myth of American Empire -- 8. Hope Without Guarantees -- 367.