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The Next 100 Years

A Forecast for the 21st Century

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 George Friedman, founder of Stratfor, has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his thoughtful assessments of current trends and near-future events.

In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his eye on the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, experiencing the dawn of a new historical cycle.

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"A unique combination of cold-eyed realism and boldly confident fortune-telling....Whether all of the visions in Friedman's crystal ball actually materialize, they certainly make for engrossing entertainment." ( Publishers Weekly)
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George Friedman provide the listener with his predictions on the course of international relations over the next hundred years. He begins by setting out the forces that he thinks shape world politics and then outlines how he expects events to progress. There is humor in this as well as serious ideas. Well worth reading, even if to define in your own mind, why you think he might be wrong.

Fun and thought provoking

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Of course the author rightly points out that the details are not necessarily correct but the view of what might happen on a wider scale is very interesting. You really have to not see the book as an exact timeline but more as a guild to possible problems and solutions for us in the next 100 years.

Insightful and interesting

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I found the analysis of the past and current situations very insightful.

The stuff about the future was very bold. I appreciated how brave it was but found it straying into the realm of fiction.

Very brave

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Great links and analogies to past events.
An interesting listen, highly recommended.
Written in 2009, so gives a perspective…

Reflective take on history and future

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Interesting evaluation of population changes and the rise and decline of different nations. This is quite US centric but this feels relevant in a counter-argument to the many who baselessly claim the US is on decline. I feel some of the longer term predictions of Poland, Turkey, Mexico and Japan becoming dominant seem a bit fairy-tale and doesn't seem very backed up with evidence, as well as the collapse of Russia and China. I would have enjoyed this book more if he had elaborated more on the decline of Russia and China rather than skipping over this. Of course I would be very willing to buy a book about these declines if he was to publish one.

Interesting evaluation, but becomes far fetched

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