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Authors: George Friedman

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The Next Decade

A
LSO BY
G
EORGE
F
RIEDMAN
THE NEXT 100 YEARS
AMERICA’S SECRET WAR
THE FUTURE OF WAR
THE INTELLIGENCE EDGE
THE COMING WAR WITH JAPAN
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL

 

Copyright © 2011 by George Friedman

 

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Tonronto.

 

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Jacket design by Emily Mahon
Jacket photograph © Chad Baker/Getty Images

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Friedman, George.
The next decade / George Friedman.
p. cm.
1. World politics—21st century—Forecasting. I. Title.
D863.F75 2011
909.83’1—dc22        2010043116

 

eISBN: 978-0-385-53295-2

 

v3.1

 

For Don Kuykendall,
Friend

I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.
—A
BRAHAM
L
INCOLN
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
—F
RANKLIN
R
OOSEVELT
We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
—R
ONALD
R
EAGAN
It is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain his position to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge or not to use it according to necessity.
—N
ICCOLÒ
M
ACHIAVELLI

CONTENTS
 

 

Cover

 

Other Books by This Author

 

Title Page

 

Copyright

 

Dedication

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

 

I
NTRODUCTION:
R
EBALANCING
A
MERICA

 

CHAPTER 1
T
HE
U
NINTENDED
E
MPIRE
CHAPTER 2
R
EPUBLIC,
E
MPIRE, AND THE
M
ACHIAVELLIAN
P
RESIDENT
CHAPTER 3
T
HE
F
INANCIAL
C
RISIS AND THE
R
ESURGENT
S
TATE
CHAPTER 4
F
INDING THE
B
ALANCE OF
P
OWER
CHAPTER 5
T
HE
T
ERROR
T
RAP
CHAPTER 6
R
EDEFINING
P
OLICY:
T
HE
C
ASE OF
I
SRAEL
CHAPTER 7
S
TRATEGIC
R
EVERSAL:
T
HE
U
NITED
S
TATES,
I
RAN,
AND THE
M
IDDLE
E
AST
CHAPTER 8
T
HE
R
ETURN OF
R
USSIA
CHAPTER 9
E
UROPE’S
R
ETURN TO
H
ISTORY
CHAPTER 10
F
ACING THE
W
ESTERN
P
ACIFIC
CHAPTER 11
A S
ECURE
H
EMISPHERE
CHAPTER 12
A
FRICA:
A P
LACE TO
L
EAVE
A
LONE
CHAPTER 13
T
HE
T
ECHNOLOGICAL
AND
D
EMOGRAPHIC
I
MBALANCE
CHAPTER 14
T
HE
E
MPIRE, THE
R
EPUBLIC, AND THE
D
ECADE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

About the Author

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
 

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