Best quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett on America
Checkout quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett on America
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‟ Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
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‟ Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
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‟ An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.
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‟ If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
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‟ America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.
- Thomas P.M. Barnett