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A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the
world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster,
better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost
anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days
- even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made that
happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection
of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized
energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were
created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy
forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people
have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread
across the globe. All of this was artificial. All this was
temporary. All this is ending. In The End of the World is Just the
Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out
the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no
choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure
their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with
populations that are both shrinking and aging. The list of
countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which
means everything about our interconnected world - from how we
manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the
lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all
- is about to change. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan
brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying)
ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold
strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires
were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the
U.S. Navy. With all the world's oceans safe for the first time in
history, markets and resources were made available for everyone.
Enemies became partners. We think of this system as normal - it is
not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time. In The
Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan
examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American
commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a
mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies;
and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy
that - alone among the developed nations - is rapidly approaching
energy independence. Combined, these factors are doing nothing less
than overturning the global system and ushering in a new
(dis)order. For most, that is a disaster-in-waiting, but not for
the Americans. The shale revolution allows Americans to sidestep an
increasingly dangerous energy market. Only the United States boasts
a youth population large enough to escape the sucking maw of global
aging. Most important, geography will matter more than ever in a
de-globalizing world, and America's geography is simply sublime.
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100
Years comes a contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American
power. In THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER, international strategist Peter
Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the
American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging
into a mass retirement that will enervate capital supplies; and how
it is the ever-ravenous American economy that is rapidly
approaching energy independence. Combined, these factors are
overturning the global system and ushering in a new (dis)order. For
most, that is a disaster-in-waiting, but not for the Americans. The
shale revolution allows Americans to sidestep a dangerous energy
market. Only the U.S. boasts a youth population large enough to
escape the sucking maw of global aging. Geography will matter more
than ever in a de-globalizing world, and America's geography is
simply sublime.
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