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| IN OTHER WORDS: REVIEWS OF THE WORLD'S MOST NOTEWORTHY BOOKS |
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7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century
By Andrew Krepinevich (January 27, Bantam)
As president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and consultant to the likes of the CIA and the Homeland Security Council, Krepinevich has studied everything from China’s ambitions to Internet warfare to the puzzle of Pakistan. Now, he answers the question: What’s the worst that could happen? Whether it’s the detonation of black-market nuclear weapons in major cities or a global pandemic, his scenarios are deeply unsettling.
By Jacques Attali (March 11, Arcade)
For another harrowing forecast, one of France’s top intellectuals (and an FP contributing editor) argues that history shapes the future with intrinsic, predictable patterns—and then uses them to foreshadow the period on deck. So what does Attali see? A massive reshaping of the global landscape, with democracy ultimately prevailing but at great expense in lives and money.
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
By George Friedman (January 27, Doubleday)
Friedman, founder of the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor, spins his day-job assessments into a map for the future. If he’s right, we’ll see a war between the United States and Russia, a new space race, an internal crisis in China, and the rise of Mexico as a major player.
The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity
By Matt Miller (January 6, Times Books)
Fortune columnist and Center for American Progress fellow Matt Miller predicts that America will only remain competitive by adopting a new approach to the future. The United States must, Miller argues, adopt a new set of “destined ideas”: Only business can save liberalism, only government can save business, and there’s no longer room to fear great policy ideas from abroad.
Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
By Thomas Homer-Dixon (April 14, Random House Canada)
With the help of six of Canada’s leading experts, Thomas Homer-Dixon argues that the dual crises of the future—climate change and peak oil—are really just one addressable problem with one simple answer: clean, low-carbon energy.
