Redefining the Gap 1, Prologue
by Dan tdaxp ~ May 8th, 2006
Note: This is a selection from Redefining the Gap, part of tdaxp’s SummerBlog ‘06
Attempts to find empirical proof for Barnett’s Core-Gap hypothesis have increases since I first attempted operationalizing the gap. Coming Anarchy has looked at Euro-Canadian troop deployments and FP’s failed state index, ZenPundit ponders metrics, Curtis looks at ways to skin the Gap, and Sean Meade, Tom Barnett’s blogger-in-chief, is paying attention.
Now I am prepared to release my own results:
We are at War with Africa and Islam
Actually, that may have been a bit alarmist. This is a little less so:
We are at War for Africa and Islam
Using methods that will be discussed in future posts, I compared Tom Barnett’s Core-Gap dichotomy, and Old-Core-New-Core-Gap trichotomy, with other measures of ares both settled and frontier. Specifically, I looked at every state’s Brutality of Life, Isolation of Life, Nastiness of Life, Poverty of Life, Shortness of Life
The two best divisions were Barnett’s three-way Old Core-New Core-Gap division, and a simplistic definition of the Gap to include only African and Muslim nations. The Old-New-Gap view of the world meshed well with Poverty and Solitude. For everything else, Afro-Islam is a better definition of the “Gap.”
Intrigued? Stay tuned — or comment!
Redefining the Gap, a tdaxp series:
Redefining the Gap 1. Prologue
Redefining the Gap 2. Summary
Redefining the Gap 3. Introduction to Geopolitics
Redefining the Gap 4. First Geopolitical Theories
Redefining the Gap 5. The North and the South
Redefining the Gap 6. Critical Geopolitics
Redefining the Gap 7. The Pentagon’s New Map
Redefining the Gap 8. The Research Design
Redefining the Gap 9. Methods and Operationalizations
Redefining the Gap 10. Limitations and Conclusion
Redefining the Gap 11. Results
Redefining the Gap 12. Bibliography
Redefining the Gap 13. Appendix: Computer Code
Redefining the Gap 14. Appendix: National Codes
May 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
You’re such a tease.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I’m hooked! Did the version you turned in have fancy graphics too btw?
May 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Chirol, the turned-in version had illustrative maps (like the PNM one at [1]), but no ultra cool Red-Yellow-Green map.
CGW, not really. I was going to save the conclusion until post 11. Now that would have been bad
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/05/14/redefining-the-gap-7-the-pentagon-s-new-map.html