George Friedman

The Next 100 Years

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“Predictions have made George Friedman a hot property these days.” –The Wall Street Journal

In The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century.

Drawing on history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years. Friedman shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, at the dawn of a new era — with changes in store, including:

• The US–Jihadist war will conclude — replaced by a second full-blown cold war with Russia.
• China will undergo a major extended internal crisis, and Mexico will emerge as an important world power.
• A new global war will unfold toward the middle of the century between the United States and an unexpected coalition from Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Far East; but armies will be much smaller and wars will be less deadly.
• Technology will focus on space — both for major military uses and for a dramatic new energy resource that will have radical environmental implications.

Written with the keen insight and thoughtful analysis that has made George Friedman a renowned expert in geopolitics and forecasting, The Next 100 Years presents a fascinating picture of what lies ahead.
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367 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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  • b3828317627has quoted9 years ago
    The better you are at chess, the more clearly you see your options, and the fewer moves there actually are available. The better the player, the more predictable the moves. The grandmaster plays with absolute predictable precision—until that one brilliant, unexpected stroke.
    Nations behave the same way.
  • Arthur Mhas quoted6 years ago
    Countries will go so far as to pay people to move there. This will include the United States, which will be competing for increasingly scarce immigrants and will be doing everything it can to induce Mexicans to come to the United States—an ironic but inevitable shift.
  • b8238583232has quoted3 years ago
    There are endless unknowns, and no forecast of a century can be either complete or utterly correct.

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