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

Gathering information from its global network of operatives and analysts (drawing the nickname "the Shadow CIA"), Stratfor produces thoughtful and genuinely engrossing analysis of international events daily, from possible outcomes of the latest Pakistan/India tensions to the hierarchy of Mexican drug cartels to challenges to Obama's nascent administration. --Jon Foro. Starting with the premises that "conventional political analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination" and "common sense will be wrong," Friedman maps what he sees as the likeliest developments of the future, some intuitive, some surprising: more (but less catastrophic) wars; Rus

For continual, updated analysis and supplemental material, go to Stratfor. Riveting reading from first to last, The Next 100 Years is a fascinating exploration of what the future holds for all of us. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR—the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm—focuses on what he knows best, the future. For example, The U.S.-Jihadist war will be replaced by a new cold war with Russia; China’s role as a world power will diminish; Mexico will become an important force on the geopolitical stage; and new technologies and cultural trends will radically alter the way we live (and fight wars). Positing that civilization is at the dawn of a new era, he offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century all based on his own thorough analysis and research. China fragments, a new Cold War with Russia, Mexcio challenges U.S., the new great powers Turkey, Poland and Japan.  The Next 100 Years is a fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S

RVBASECAMP said Read This Book and Be Prepared for The Likely Future Events. I am giving this book five stars because it was difficult for me to but it down.The writing of this book, best I can tell, was completed in "Read This Book and Be Prepared for The Likely Future Events" according to RVBASECAMP. I am giving this book five stars because it was difficult for me to but it down.The writing of this book, best I can tell, was completed in 2009. If that is incorrect, I apologize. Being that I subscribe to STRATFOR, I am already a bit of a fan of Mr. Friedman's work and analysis of global issue. 009. If that is incorrect, I apologize. Being that I subscribe to STRATFOR, I am already a bit of a fan of Mr. Friedman's work and analysis of global issue. Fun SWAG at the future I have enjoyed this as a work of speculative fiction. No doubt highly educated speculative fiction. But, as this was published around 2009, and written in 2008, the last 8 years of foreign policy and world events are not factored into his analysis. I concur with him on many points, the rise of T. Worth reading. The author fails to deliver on his promise to discover a "new," let alone superior, method of looking into the future. Instead, he resorts to such phrases as "stranger things have happened." The outcome is a mishmash of various predictions, some of which may come true whereas others will prove f