Summary of George Friedman 's The Next 100 Years

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American people have a deep-seated belief that the United States is approaching its end. This is reflected in the letters pages of newspapers, the web, and public discourse. The American economy is so large that it is larger than the economies of the next four countries combined.
#2 The United States is still underpopulated by global standards. It has plenty of room to increase all three of its components: land, labor, and capital. The American economy is so powerful because of its military power.
#3 The United States is only at the beginning of its power. The twenty-first century will be the American century, and it has been forced to take on the role that European power occupied for five hundred years, between Columbus's voyage in 1492 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
#4 Until the fifteenth century, humans lived in self-enclosed, sequestered worlds. But as the European empires expanded, they brought the world together as a single entity. Europe became the center of gravity of the global system.

Sujets

• Geopolitics

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669383598
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on George Friedman's The Next 100 Years
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The American people have a deep-seated belief that the United States is approaching its end. This is reflected in the letters pages of newspapers, the web, and public discourse. The American economy is so large that it is larger than the economies of the next four countries combined.

#2

The United States is still underpopulated by global standards. It has plenty of room to increase all three of its components: land, labor, and capital. The American economy is so powerful because of its military power.

#3

The United States is only at the beginning of its power. The twenty-first century will be the American century, and it has been forced to take on the role that European power occupied for five hundred years, between Columbus's voyage in 1492 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

#4

Until the fifteenth century, humans lived in self-enclosed, sequestered worlds. But as the European empires expanded, they brought the world together as a single entity. Europe became the center of gravity of the global system.

#5

The European Age was the first global system, and it was built on two things: money and geography. Europe depended on imports from Asia, and as Asia was closed off by the Turks, the Iberians chose to go around them by sailing west.

#6

The inability of the Europeans to unite was due to a simple feature of geography: the English Channel. No one could cross it, and so none could conquer Britain and hold Europe as a whole.

#7

The United States emerged from World War I as a global power. It left a ticking time bomb in Europe that would guarantee its power after the next war. That time bomb was the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I but left unresolved the core conflicts over which the war had been fought.

#8

The American strategy was to contain and strangle the Soviets, and this was confirmed by history. The Soviet Union was created by the Americans to contain and strangle European Russia, but the collapse of the Soviet Union elevated the United States to global preeminence.

#9

The United States controlled the sea, which allowed it to engage in and define global maritime trade. It could make the rules, or at least block anyone else's rules, by denying other nations entry to the world's trade routes.

#10

After World War II, the United States controlled the seas, which gave it a huge advantage over other countries. The Americans were able to wage wars without fear of having their supply lines cut. No other nation could mount amphibious operations without American consent.

#11

The United States came to power in the twentieth century, and as the Soviet Union was collapsing, transpacific trade had risen to a level 50 percent greater than transatlantic trade. The entire geometry of international trade was undergoing a shift.

#12

The United States is a young society, and as such, it is not fully civilized. It is still barbarian, but it is developing a culture that is inevitably barbaric. America is a place where the right wing despises Muslims for their faith, and the left wing despises them for their treatment of women.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The American Age began on September 11, 2001, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The attack was meant to demonstrate America’s weakness and al Qaeda’s strength. However, the American side won, and al Qaeda was unable to overthrow any governments.

#2

The former Soviet Union saw a lot of change. Some changes were peaceful, like Germany reuniting and the Baltic states reemerging. Other changes were more violent, like Romania undergoing a tumultuous internal revolution.

#3

The Yugoslavian war was not just a local phenomenon, but a response to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was the prelude to an even bigger earthquake that began as the Soviet Union collapsed.

#4

The Soviet Union and the United States had a confrontation that spanned the periphery of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed, this last section was the most heavily affected.

#5

The region from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan and Pakistan had been locked in place during the Cold War. With the Soviets gone, the region destabilized dramatically.

#6

The end of the Cold War in 1991 unleashed a powder keg of geopolitical instability in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The region had always been a flashpoint, and the collapse of the Soviet Union freed the six Muslim republics to become independent. But American interest in the region declined, and the region began to destabilize on its own.

#7

The U. S. - jihadist war ended the interregnum between the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the next era: the U. -jihadist war. The jihadists could not win, if by winning we mean the re-creation of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire.

#8

Grand strategy is the basis of American foreign policy. It is not always about war, but it is about all of the processes that make up national power. The United States has historically been a warlike country, and its economic life and political system are geared towards war.