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Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, Director

PROJECT HISTORY

Phase I (Jan 2000-Sept 2001)

The NewRuleSets.Project began in the spring of 2000 as a multi-year, five workshop effort designed to explore how the spread of globalization alters the basic "rules of the road" in the international security environment, with special reference to how these changes redefine the U.S. Military's historic role as "security enabler" of America's commercial network ties with the world.

The project was hosted by the Wall Street broker-dealer firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which participated in the design of the three workshops held atop World Trade Center 1 at the Windows on the World conference facility (May 2000, October 2000, June 2001). That particular workshop series ended with the tragedy of 9/11, as did Cantor's participation in the research.

Phase II (Nov 2001-June 2003)

Soon after 9/11, Dr. Barnett, the project director, was given a temporary assignment as the Assistant for Strategic Futures, Office of Force Transformation (Arthur K. Cebrowski, Director), Office of the Secretary of Defense. The research generated by Dr. Barnett in this posting stemmed directly from the research he previously conducted in the NewRuleSets.Project, and thus is presented here as Phase Two products of the project.

Four workshops were held in Phase Two:

March 2002 workshop on "System Perturbations & Change in the Strategic Environment" (Washington DC)
November 2002 workshop on "Globalization After 9/11" (San Francisco, CA)
April 2003 workshop on "The Future of Globalization" (Long Island, NY)
May 2003 workshop on "The Global Transaction Strategy" (Philadelphia, PA)
November 2003 workshop on "The Pentagon's New Map" (Chicago, IL).

The NewRuleSets.Project involved personnel from the Warfare Analysis and Research Department (Dr. Lawrence Modisett, Chairman) of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies

Project Director, Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett

Appears on NPR's On Point re: "New American Way of War" (10June03)

More Esquire letters re: "Pentagon's New Map" (June03)

Esquire's The Sound & The Fury letters re: "Pentagon's New Map" (May03)

Appears on NPR's The Connection re: "Bagdad Falling" (9Apr03)

Appears on Tracy McCray Show re: "Pentagon's New Map" (27 Mar 03)

Providence Journal profile (2Mar03)

Wolf Blitzer interview on CNN Showdown Iraq (26Feb03)

Appears on NPR's Glenn Mitchell Show re: "Pentagon's New Map" (13Feb03)

Transcript of brief to Council on Foreign Relations [DC] (11Feb03)

2002 Esquire "Best and Brightest" ["The Strategist"] (Dec02)

2001 U.S. Naval Institute "Proceedings Author of the Year" (Apr02)

Appears on NPR's All Things Considered on 9/11 and Globalization (1Dec01)

Published articles

Bibliography on Alternative Global Futures

NewRuleSets.Project [PHASE TWO]
(Oct01-Jun03)

Publications:

"Global Transaction Strategy," with Henry H. Gaffney, Jr., Military Officer [May 03]; reprinted in Early Bird [30 Apr 03]
"No Retaliation at Home" in Mary Suh, ed., "Strategy, With the Benefit of Hindsight," The New York Times (Week in Review), 30 March 03)
"The Pentagon's New Map," Esquire [Mar 03]; reprinted in Early Bird [20 Feb 03], international editions of Esquire [summer 03]
"The American Way of War," with Arthur K. Cebrowski, Transformation Trends newsletter of the Office of Force Transformation (OSD) [13 Jan 03]; originally published in Proceedings [Jan 03] and reprinted in the Early Bird Supplement [3 Jan 03]
"The Top 100 Rules of the New American Way of War," with Henry H. Gaffney, Jr., Transformation Trends newsletter of the Office of Force Transformation (OSD) [13 Jan 03]; originally posted on U.S. Naval Institute website >http://www.usni.org/Proceedings/Articles03/probarnett01.htm< [3Jan 03] and reprinted in the Early Bird Supplement on that date; also reprinted in Spring 2003 issue of British Army Review
"Where--Not When--Preemption Makes Sense," Transformation Trends newsletter of the Office of Force Transformation (OSD) [18 Nov 02]; originally published in The Providence Journal [7 Nov 02) under the title "The 'Core' and 'Gap': Defining Rules in a Dangerous World," and reprinted in the Early Bird Supplement on that date
"Asia: The Military-Market Link," Proceedings [Jan 02]
"Globalization Gets a Bodyguard," with Henry H. Gaffney, Jr., Proceedings [Nov 01]
"Globalization is Tested," Proceedings [Oct 01]