The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

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• The founder of one of the world's leading private intelligence companies offers a thought-provoking analysis of current trends and events, as well as historical and geopolitical patterns, to speculate about the changes that will unfold over the course of the next century. 50,000 first printing.
• George Friedman is not a psychic or a weatherman, but he does earn a living making predictions, as CEO of STRATFOR, a think tank and forecasting agency. In his vision of the coming century, he dismisses the common view that China and India will emerge as legitimate threats to the United States' global dominance. While those two superpowers will be occupied with infighting and internal strife, U.S. command of the four oceans and the (future) development of American space-based solar generators, which will replace oil as the most vital global fuel source, will ensure that the United States will reign supreme for the foreseeable future.
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  Some of Friedman's more surprising predictions include the rise of Mexico as a world power, and a forthcoming war between the US and an alliance between Japan and Turkey, slated to begin on Thanksgiving Day, 2050. However, earth dwellers can be thankful that, due to advances in military technology, that war, like most in the coming century, will be fought in outer space.
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• "THE NEXT 100 YEARS is fascinating because of its dismissal of the conventional wisdom."
• "Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world." -- George Friedman

  In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future -- offering 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.

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  The Next 100 Years draws on a fascinating exploration of 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 U.S.-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.
  • The United States will experience a Golden Age in the second half of the century.

  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.

  For continual, updated analysis and supplemental material, go to www.Stratfor.com.

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