Transcript The Modern Activity Gap (MAG) and the Arch of Instability

The Modern Activity Gap (MAG) and the Arch of Instability (AI), The MAGAI
Irregular Global Operational Flow
TELECOMMUNICATION FLOWS
Around the World in a Single Day
Modern Activity Gap
Telecommunications flows
around the world on a single
day. The highest density of
flows is shown in black across
North America, Europe, and
Northeast Asia
During the Cold War the Faulda Gap was the reference point. Now, The
“Modern Activity Gap” (MAG) left replaces the Faulda Gap as the most
significant geo-strategic reference of our time. As shown, the MAG is an
area around and within the old Silk Road between the Black Sea Region
and the littoral regions of East Asia. It is clearly seen in the 1998
geographical depiction (left) where the electronic transactions of modern
global economies line the littorals and provide a familiar geography but the
saturation that occurs in a northern corridor of modern human activity is
near absolute. Yet, its absence in the highlighted MAG is striking. But, even
more striking when viewed next to the widely referred to “Arch of Instability
(AI). The nearly exclusive intersection I call the MAGAI is shown below.
Clearly we face a changing world. Realigning our view of global connectivity
and the dominating attributes of the evolving economic flow is critical. It is
essential that we understand the evolving interconnectivity in and around
the MAGAI and it’s impact on strategic choices globally.
The MAG Meets the Arch of Instability
A Context for Strategic Change
There are strong forces on all sides of the MAG (above). In the west, the
new economies of the Baltics, Balkans and Black Sea regions hold 100’s of
millions of awakening consumers. With Trans-Atlantic security and EU
backing their primary outlet has been west through Europe and across the
Atlantic. In East and South Asia, the strong economies of the Western
Pacific and the hyper growth in the Eastern China littoral encompass a
billion strong consumer market with a dominant oceanic outlet to the west
and through the U.S.. Within the gap, east from the wider Black Sea
Region, across Russia, through the Caucasus, in South West and Central
Asia, in Northern India, and within the Chinese hinterland there are the
awakenings of markets to opportunities rich in potential for ground based
interconnectivity. This Silk Road interconnectivity will alter the centuries
long dominance of oceanic trade made essential by the political, economic
and military barricades of a thousand years. The closure of the MAG is
beginning. A look at the 2006 graphical depiction of the MAG will show
significant change. With the markets of Europe connected directly to
markets of the western Pacific by land with modern transportation and
distribution capabilities, US centrality to globalization will cease.
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TELECOMMUNICATION FLOWS
Around the World in a Single Day
Modern Activity Gap
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