Fundamental flaws:
Iraq is not volutarily out of the loop of globalisation - we put it there with sanctions, and prior to then it was hardly non-threatening.
What is wrong with not wanting to globalise eg in NW Pakistan. Fogetting the fact that religious fanaticism is prevalent there, maybe, just maybe, they don't want their kids to get fat on McD's or grow up on a diet of trash TV?
More drugs by use come from 'the Core' than the non-Core countries. For example LSD, ecstacy, Marijuana etc. It is not simply cocaine and heroin.
Fear in Middle Eastern states? Sounds more like the TSAs new search proposals. Obviously the author has never been to the Middle East, or noticed the lack of opportunities for the young in the backwaters of the US, nor that a trust fund is required for uni in the US. etc etc. Nor that we are supporting the Saudi regime - that he admits is nasty.
Bullies picking on the weak...well we're attacking Iraq and not China for nukes and human rights violations. Nuff said.
Good track record in exporting security? Vietnam? Remember that? Great - press your idea of government on a people who you're not even asking. The rest of the world has not asked the US to be its policeman.
"It is America’s continued success in deterring global war and obsolescing state-on-state war that allows us to stick our noses into the far more difficult subnational conflicts and the dangerous transnational actors they spawn." How anyone can have the audacity to proclaim this I do not know.
Having said that, the country summary below is fairly comprehensive and useful.