The Next Decade, George Friedman
The Next Decade, George Friedman
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The Next Decade
Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

Author: George Friedman

Narrator: Bruce Turk

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2011


Synopsis

The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.

The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade.

In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a pro­vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi­ate future. Using Machiavelli’s The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world’s leaders—particularly the American president—and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world’s leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make—and the consequences these actions will have for us all.

About The Author

Dr. George Friedman is Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a company dedicated to forecasting the course of the international system (www.geopoliticalfutures.com). He is an internationally recognized strategist on global affairs and appears frequently in the media, and is a New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years, Flashpoints,The Next Decade, The Storm Before the Calm, America's Secret War, The Future of War and The Intelligence Edge. Prior to founding Geopolitical Futures in 2015, Friedman was Chairman of Stratfor, the geopolitical intelligence publishing and consulting firm he founded in 1996. He lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ugh on March 21, 2013

This book is not quite what its cover leads the unsuspecting buyer to believe it will be. The cover underplays the book's US-centricity, and although the whole world does come in for consideration at some point, it's all from a US point of view. Happily I was fine with that; others may not be. Friedm......more

Goodreads review by Ammar on September 24, 2014

This book learned me how mega trends, technology, demography, resources, wars, and foreign political actions are being observed and analyzed from American politicians perspective. Although Friedman admits that America has some moral hypothesis that must maintain, but he confess that it must use all......more

Goodreads review by Kira on November 08, 2015

I like the way Friedman said something like the leaders of today can be taught yesterday (not his exact words, these are mine.) From 8,000 BCE to now, from empires to states, from theocracy to democracy, the world has changed again and again, and will continue to change, for better or for worse. The w......more

Goodreads review by André on June 06, 2023

It’s always interesting to read a book on global affairs predictions in the aftermath of the predicted period. It allowed to see how certain predictions didn’t occur and other important events were missed by Friedman. However, I believe Friedman foresaw the bigger picture, namely the challenges posed......more

Goodreads review by Joseph D. on June 20, 2011

I am glad to have found this author who is a very insightful foreign policy thinker. He looks at foreign policy through Machiavellian spectacles and examines the forces that will shape the world going forward and gives interesting directives for the would-be President of the United States in exertin......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR GEORGE FRIEDMAN:

“There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.″ —New York Times Magazine