Since the end of the Cold War, America has searched for a new theory to explain how this seemingly chaotic world actually works. Gone is the clash of superpowers-but replaced by what? In The Pentagon's New Map, Thomas Barnett provides a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to do no less than predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first cen-tury. Building on the works of Thomas Friedman and Francis Fukuyama, and then taking a leap beyond, this book offers much-needed hope at a crucial yet uncertain time in history.

ISBN: 9780425202395