There is definitely a risk, Hackett says.

Question: Will we see resource wars in the next century?

Jim Hackett: There is the risk. You would have to - I mean the areas which hold the most at least form today’s knowledge of what is out there, would be in the Middle East and the Caspian Sea. There is risk.

Jim Hackett: I actually think it is unlikely, because I think mankind, while we continue to see tremendous pain and suffering form wars, mankind seems to be able to figured out at least if the last fifty plus years over guy is way not to get the big super powers involved in battle. The only thing that I think is uncontrollable in today’s world is the notion of someone who is much smaller player, in that whole model actually doing something that make us feel like it was another player that did it and that is where I am fearful somebody with real weapons somehow gets leverage over a system that has been fairly good at creating effectively a data amongst the biggest army in the world. As China grows, its army grows, its power grows that something we have to keep watching for. I am sure the Russians and ourselves will become more aligned, not less aligned over time with that particular issue, I think Europe will find itself carry more of its own burden, because I like to have any power in the world stage they are going to need to and my fine hope is that all of us them will be in position where there won’t be any superpower, a single superpower which I don’t know as it, and that surely a good thing for anyone, which is certainly it have been position in America has been on, but I still think we have a group of superpowers that hopefully act as we have acted for the last 50 past years, which is avoiding major war.

Recorded On: 3/24/08