The pentagon’s new…

If we conduct military operations on your soil and we don’t feel the need to tell your government about it beforehand (e.g., Somalia, Pakistan), you’re in the Gap.

Barnett on core and gap.

Other good bits from his blog of late:

Chinese peacekeepers in the Sudan

http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/the_end_of_were_not_political.html

Cheap chinese equipment changing lives in Africa

http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/yuan_diplomacy_work_the_bottom.html

China “toxic for African freedom”

http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/confront_china_quietly.html

The AFRICOM mission

http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/03/africom_promotes_active_securi.html

Regional poverty maps

http://sedac.ciesin.org/povmap/

(compare with the GDP density maps here)

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/01/the_distributio.html

Mar 31 2008 08:53 am | The Global Picture |

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