The Accidental Superpower
Peter Zeihan
Grand Central Publishing
<p>In the bestselling tradition of <i>The World Is Flat </i>and <i>The Next 100 Years</i>, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power.</br> 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 U.S. 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.</br> We think of this system as normal-it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.</br> 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...</p>