In America's New Map: Restoring Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse, Thomas P.M. Barnett, bestselling author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century and acclaimed geo-strategist, offers seven throughlines to frame and redefine the ambitions and posture of these United States, setting our Union on a bold-but-entirely-familiar national trajectory. In these pages, Barnett offers a deep, yet accessible dive into the three shifts that have lead us to this point:
- As climate change ravages countries closest to the equator, global dynamics are shifting from an East-West emphasis to North-South in the greatest geopolitical transformation our world has yet experienced--and the Western Hemisphere is far better positioned to exploit this radical reorientation than the East.
- Aging demographics worldwide favor more slowly aging nations, including the US, while challenging rapidly aging nations like China, incentivizing countries best to delay that transition by integrating younger, faster-growing populations into their ranks.
- In combination, these two tectonic forces collide with a third: the exploding consumption of an expanding--and now majority--global middle class, the bulk of whom reside along the increasingly unstable North-South frontier.
Taking every variable of these unique circumstances into account, America's New Map charts a path toward a bigger and better United States. We will all be living in somebody's world come mid-century--this book tells Americans how to make sure it is one we can recognize as our own.