Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so…

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...W…

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett