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The Absent Superpower
- The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
- Narrated by: Toby Sheets
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Terrorism spills out of the Middle East into Europe. Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan vie to see who can be most aggressive. Financial breakdown in Asia and Europe guts growth, challenging hard-won political stability.
Yet, for the Americans, these changes are fantastic. Alone among the world's powers, only the United States is geographically wealthy, demographically robust, and energy secure. That last piece - American energy security - is rapidly emerging as the most critical piece of the global picture.
The American shale revolution does more than sever the largest of the remaining ties that bind America's fate to the wider world. It re-industrializes the United States, accelerates the global order's breakdown, and triggers a series of wide ranging military conflicts that will shape the next two decades. The common theme? Just as the global economy tips into chaos, just as global energy becomes dangerous, just as the world really needs the Americans to be engaged, the United States will be...absent.
In 2014's The Accidental Superpower, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan made the case that geographic, demographic, and energy trends were unravelling the global system. Zeihan takes the story a step further in The Absent Superpower, mapping out the threats and opportunities as the world descends into disorder.
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- mathew collins
- 23-06-2020
Wishful thinking
It’s a good book with a lot of good points but it seems to think everything is just Geography and fails to account for other factors such as history and the average IQ of the population of a given country. Another example of missing out the details is he says that’s Japan would take Sakhalin from Russia lol does he realise it’s the nuclear age we live in and Russia has as much or more nukes then the USA. He also pants America as the golden county, like completely superior to any nation or group of nations, he’s fucken dreaming, it will be lucky to stay together with all the race bating and tensions, some kind of civil war is possible. Same with the idea that Europe will risk or vice a verse Russian risk nuclear war with each other over the Ukraine or Poland, no bullshit that will not happen with two nuclear powers
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Javier
- 11-11-2017
Way too similar to the first book.
I was excited to get into this book because I liked the first one. But it’s just too similar to the first. I honestly felt bored listen to this book because everything that would have been exciting to listen to has already been covered in the accidental superpower. Skip this book.
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