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  • The Next Decade

  • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
  • By: George Friedman
  • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
  • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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The Next Decade

By: George Friedman
Narrated by: Bruce Turk
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Summary

The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.

The next 10 years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade.

In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers listeners a pro­vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi­ate future. Using Machiavelli’s The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world’s leaders - particularly the American president - and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The audiobook also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world’s leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make - and the consequences these actions will have for us all.

©2011 George Friedman (P)2011 Random House Audio
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“There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.″ ( New York Times Magazine)

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Its okay!

I didn't realise it would be based around America and American aims with other countries playing bit parts. That said it was worth a listen and with time on my side I can easily pick holes in the predictions and I would disagree with some evn without hindsight.

what is worse then some of the ideas and predictions is the robotic performance of the reader. not to my personal liking sadly.

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