Coverage of book-launch event at U South Florida

USF's College of Arts and Sciences's online coverage of my appearance at the university in early Oct includes this piece entitled "Author Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett describes three globalization shifts America will face."

The gist:

In his talk held at the USF Marshall Student Center on Oct. 4, “A New Conversation About America’s Map,” he described America’s current international standing and the three big geopolitical challenges America faces: climate crisis, shifting demographics, and the rise of global middle-class consumption.

The basis of the discussion was centered on his newest book, “America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse.”

Dr. Mohsen Milani, executive director of the CSDS and a professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, led the discussion and asked Barnett to define what a geopolitical strategist is.

Geopolitical strategists, Barnett explained, are concerned with the larger “superstructure.”

“It's how people, companies, and nations are organized; it’s how nations come together and interact and organize themselves,” he said. “We're about telling the story about how the world got here, what's going on in the world, and where the world can go next.”

Barnett emphasized that we should plan to prepare for the major changes happening with climate change, an aging population, and “the emergence of a global majority middle class.”

“I’ve got these three big structural changes happening between now and 2070,” Barnett explained.

But, before we get to the other side of those changes, he said we will experience decades of what he described as a “zone of turbulence.”

It was a great experience, from my perspective, especially getting to connect F2F with several Throughliners based in Florida. I can't say enough about my unfolding collaboration with the rest of Throughline, Inc. , and I was especially proud to have our CEO Brandon Jones in attendance.

The response we've gotten from readers and audiences to-date has been spectacular, so we continue to focus on winning room after room to this message and vision. It is a good fight and we are happy to wage it.