GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Random House, Central Powers, Axis Powers
9 Feb 2020
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A book review of the next 100 years by george friedman. In the book, the next 100 years, george friedman attempts to prognosticate major geopolitical events and trends in the 21st century. Friedman successfully uses past events to help justify his predictions of the future, which exemplifies the concept of history repeating itself. Friedman predicts that the united states will remain the dominant superpower over the next hundred years, and the majority of geopolitical events will serve as challenges toward american dominance. Friedman predicts that a second cold war will emerge between the united states and russia (2009, p. 6). Friedman predicts that russia will be defeated again by the united states, and both russia and china will experience fragmentation (2009, p. 71). From the collapse of russia and china, eurasia will become a poacher"s paradise as turkey, japan, and poland will emerge as new powers (friedman, 2009, 137).
