Archive for the 'globalization'

• Stocking Stuffers……

December 12th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 3 gen gangs, 4GW, authors, barnett, book, brave new war, capitalism, cognition, Cyberwar, defense, foreign policy, futurism, gangs, gap, geopolitics, global guerillas, globalization, government, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, national security, non-state actors, PNM, politics, primary loyalties, psychology, recommended reading, robb, sociobiology, soft power, state building, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, Threats in the Age of Obama, war, warriors | 6 comments

• Still too Busy to Blog Properly….But Hey, Look What I’m Reading!

November 24th, 2009 by zen

Posted in academia, authors, biography, book, capitalism, culture, economics, globalization, historians, history, horizontal thinking, howard bloom, ideas, intellectuals, islamic world, nixon, politics, primary loyalties, Religion, rick perlstein, science, shia, social science, society, synthesis, Theology, vali nasr | 5 comments

• Excess Complexity is the Route to Extinction

April 10th, 2009 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, authors, barack obama, black swans, complex systems, complexity, connectivity, economics, globalization, government, ideas, intellectuals, markets, network theory, obama, physics, politics, reform, resilience, science, society, theory | 22 comments

• The U.S. is Not Going to Disengage from the Mideast

December 16th, 2008 by zen

Posted in foreign policy, geopolitics, glittering eye, globalization, intellectuals, iran, iraq, islamic world, islamist, national security, non-state actors, Outside the beltway, schuler, state failure, state terrorism, strategy, terrorism | 5 comments

• Mandelbrot and Taleb on the Economic Crisis

October 23rd, 2008 by zen

Posted in 2008, 21st century, black swans, economic determinism, economics, globalization, network theory | 4 comments