Introduction: In his seminal work, The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas Barnett proposed a powerful idea: the world’s security problems stem from a gap between the “connected” and “disconnected” parts of the world. His geopolitical analysis, first articulated in the late 1990s and early 2000s, argued that global stability would increasingly depend on closing this “non-integrated … Continue reading Globalization, Connectivity, and Conflict: Thomas Barnett’s Map and Its Modern Legacy (1)