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

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Amazon.Com, general, 100 Year Forecast, 100 Years, Amazon, American Army, Austro Hungarian, Continent, Eastern Hemisphere, George Friedman, Global Financial Markets, Great Britain, Interdependence, Left Communism, Less Than Five Years, Living In London, Nazi Germany, Ottoman Empires, Peace Treaty, Periphery, Prosperous Europe, Soviet Union, Stratfor, Unprecedented Prosperity, World Europe

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By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
OVERTURE
An Introduction to the American Age
Imagine that you were alive in the summer of 1900, living in London, then the capital of the world. Europe ruled the Eastern Hemisphere. There was hardly a place that, if not ruled directly, was not indirectly controlled from a European capital. Europe was [...]

Who Broke Global Finance, and Who Should Pay for It?

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Financial, Architecture, Bretton Woods Conference, Current, European Leaders, Financial Crisis, Fundamental Challenge, Global Finance, Global Financial Crisis, Global Institutions, Globalization, Great Crash, Interdependence, International Economy, Meltdown, Radical Reform

The current financial crisis poses a fundamental challenge to globalization and to its many analysts. All are now considering what the recent meltdown means — the euphoric globalizers, few of whom are left; the tragic globalizers, who see the benefits of interdependence but worry about a great crash ahead; the managerial globalizers, who would like [...]

How Europe can shape the global system

Posted by Matt in May 1st, 2008 | no comment

Published in Europe, Ascendancy, Brazil, China, Cold-War, Dependence, Europe, Europeans, Fiasco, Global System, Globalization, India, Interdependence, iraq, Nation States, Pace, Possibilities, Power Politics, Russia, Unipolar Moment

The end of the unipolar moment, underlined by the American fiasco in Iraq and by the ascendancy of China, Brazil and India, raises again questions about the structure of the global system and how Europe fits within it.
After the end of the cold war and with the accelerating pace of globalisation, Europeans were inclined to [...]