In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower will be a much discussed, 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 markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy that - a.
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.
Navy.
Empires were abolished and replaced by a Global arrangement enforced by the U.
S.
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system.
An eye-opening assement 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.
Navy.
Empires were abolished and replaced by a Global arrangement enforced by the U.
S.
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system.
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power
