The Next 100 Years: 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.
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.

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[erdal0]

Turks are going to rise again..

[oCapricorn89o]

@abc801saltlake "Mexica can't even solve their drug problems" HAHA they were always here, the drug lords, for over 50 years they represented what was hiding behind our corrupted system, today we are getting rid of them, thats what you can call solving a problem, we have already acknowledge what we want, from poor to rich mexicans, we want this country to grow and to do such the old dogs of the government (druglords) must be put down, this just prooves we care about this.

[oCapricorn89o]

We grew our population by almost 5 times in 60 years and that not including the mexicans living in your country, our standards of living have improved in these 10 years so much that immigration has stoped and we are borderlining development, we are just behind brasil in economical and population size here in LA and growing as fast as them, your media is barely speaking about these topics and neither ours does, we may never rule the world but we are starting to be a subject to be considered.

[abc801saltlake]

Maaking statements like this is what people that have shit for brains make to gain attention

[abc801saltlake]

Mexico taking over the world!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... the world will end before that happens.

[abc801saltlake]

George go back and do more reserch Mexica can't even solve their drug problems... the only thing that Mexico's improving economy will do is stop illigal imigration, Mexico will never even think of challanging the US. I think you are full of SHIT (brain) " Fried____ man"

[callmecg101]

Nationalism has served him well.

[GoooObama08]

is this guy for real? did somebody fail to tell him the US is bankrupt, they're $13 trillion in debt. No country can sustain an empire if they don't have the economical might to propel it.

[thomasjackdavies]

@omsct Britain definitely "controlled all the oceans" to the extent that was technologically possible at the height of their naval power, but what Friedman means mean American Naval power has less to do with firepower and more to do with the omnipresent, unchallengable, inescapable and ever-watching eye the USA casts over the seas. The reality is that you cannot so much as float a dinghy in the Bering Strait without the tacit approval of the US Navy. The USA's naval power is incomprehensible.

[TOTCD]

@Zooni2 How is it a mistake? Turkey was a world power for centuries in the past.

The ottoman empire. You're mistake is you assume things will remain the way they are today.Turkey's economy has been rising rapidly during the past decade.

It will continue to do so. With wealth and growing regional influence comes the longing to world power status.