Transcript of taped show with Harry Kreisler at U. Berkeley in early March of 2005.
TRANSCRIPT
found at: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/Barnett/barnett-con0.html
This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.
Welcome to a Conversation with History. I'm Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies. Our guest today is Thomas P.M. Barnett, who is a strategic planner, who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War and has operated his own consulting practice, New Rule Sets Project since 1998. A New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Barnett is a forecaster of global conflict and an expert on military transformation and on issues relating to international security and economic globalization. He is the author of The Pentagon's New Map and a contributing editor to Esquire magazine.
small rural town . . . lawyer parents . . . Catholic schools . . . studying the Soviet Union . . . Harvard . . . Soviet studies and Trekkism . . . effect of the demise of the Soviet Union . . . getting the Ph.D.
discovering the nature of the work . . . need for practical solutions . . . discovering a talent for presentation . . . horizontal thinking . . . disillusionment with negative approaches
III. Synergy of Ideas and Opportunity
Naval War College and Cantor Fitzgerald . . . a "useless" set of skills . . . 9/11 . . . helping to define the new questions . . . presenting a package
IV. Describing the Pentagon's New Map
identifying unifying characteristics of volatile regions . . . disconnectedness . . . transformation of military tasks . . . core vs. gap . . . the unexpected lesson of nuclear weapons . . . misguided focus on China
V. New Model for a Dual Military
breaking the model of superpower conflict . . . return to earlier bifurcation . . . "leviathan" and "sys-admin" . . . Iraq as the tipping point . . . educating the public . . . bringing in allies . . . allowing globalization to effect positive change
VI. Rounding Out the Globalist Vision
the political dimension . . . a private sector affair . . . a generous and kind society . . . the discipline of foreign indebtedness
enduring value of rule sets . . . the American "source code" . . . advice for students