With a new 10 Years later epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .
Most important, geography will matter more than ever in a de-globalizing world, and America\'s geography is simply sublime..
Only the United States boasts a youth population large enough to escape the sucking maw of global aging.
The shale revolution allows Americans to sidestep an increasingly dangerous energy market.
For most, that is a disaster-in-waiting, but not for the Americans.
Combined, these factors are doing nothing less than overturning the global system and ushering in a new (dis)order.
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.
We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.
We think of this system as normal - it is not.
Enemies became partners.
With all the world\'s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone.
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Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.
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Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system.
With a new 10 Years later epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years
