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As an adviser to the Secretary of Defense for 20 months following the September 11 attacks, Naval War College professor Thomas Barnett helped draw up our government's plans for prosecuting the War on Terror.
His primary insight was to divide the present nations of the world into two categories: a "Functioning Core" that exchanges ideas and goods globally and a "Non-integrating" group who are isolated from other countries both economically and in the realm of ideas.
The non-integrating countries in the Caribbean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, much of South Asia, and virtually all of Africa are home to 2 billion people, and are ...