Peter Zeihan
Autor(a) de The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Zeihan, Peter Henry
- Data de nascimento
- 1973-01-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Northeast Missouri State University
University of Otago
Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce - Ocupação
- geopolitical analyst
author - Organizações
- Stratfor
Center for Political and Strategic Studies
American Embassy in Australia
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- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 740
- Popularidade
- #34,321
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 20
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
If you read headlines (and who doesn’t) you’d quickly learn that the opposite is true: America’s hegemony is threatened more by its own intransigence than by anything anybody could have dreamed up for it.
If anything, the current international public health emergency has demonstrated that the American republic was designed to fail from the beginning.
Why?
Because it valued liberty and the pursuit of happiness (Krispy Kreme Donuts?) over cooperation, consensus, and compromise.
This book gives “report cards” on America’s major competitors and the forecasts are pretty grim. China will implode. Russia will fizzle out. Germany has had its day and its green plans are a sham. In spite of its demographic cul de sac, Japan will assume its rightful place among the Asian tigers.
N. Korean, Iranian, Indian, Pakistani and Israeli nuclear programs? Shrug.
Nowhere in this global strategic analysis does one find the role of ocean acidification, ocean rise, the deterioration of the ice caps, the decline of the permafrost, or the seemingly unstoppable rises in CO-2 emissions.
The book reads more like a prep book for a presidential debate than a sober analysis of who wins, who loses, and why.
There is no analysis on the concentration of wealth, or the scale of international crime, the offshoring of wealth, or the grip of transnational corporations.
Don’t black lives matter? Not in this book.
Where in this equation are data and processing power and the integrity of electronic networks? And where do artificial intelligence and CRISPR fit in?
Nowhere in sight.
About a year ago I read Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. If you want to wake up frightened, that is a better place to start.
Before I read this book I was skeptical that nations standing alone will have a great impact on global trends. I am still of that opinion.… (mais)