The Pentagon's new map : war and peace in the twenty-first century / Thomas P.M. Barnett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New rule sets -- The rise of the'lesser includeds' -- Disconnectedness defines danger -- The core and the gap -- The new ordering principle -- The global transaction strategy -- The myths we make -- Hope without guarantees.

Military strategist Barnett provides a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century. Building on the works of Thomas L. Friedman and Francis Fukuyama, and then taking a leap beyond, this book offers hope at a crucial yet uncertain time in history.--From publisher description.