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.
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made
a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were
abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the US Navy. With
all the world’s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and
resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners.
We think of this system as normal—it is not. We live in an
artificial world on borrowed time.
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. Combined, these factors are doing nothing less than overturning
the global system and ushering in a new (dis)order.
For most, that is a disaster-in-waiting, but not for the
Americans. The shale revolution allows Americans to sidestep an increasingly
dangerous energy market. Only the United States boasts a youth population large
enough to escape the sucking maw of global aging. Most important, geography
will matter more than ever in a deglobalizing world, and America’s geography
is simply sublime.
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“In The Accidental Superpower, Peter Zeihan has explored a contemporary version of Napoleon’s dictum that the power of countries derives from their geography. He brings a refreshingly novel and thought-provoking approach to understanding the rise of a US-led global order, current threats, and why the US will probably ride out the future better than others.”
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George Magnus, author of The Age of Ageing and Uprising