Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Introduction: Looking Back at What the Future Was Supposed to Be -- Part 1: Unraveling at Home: Chapter 1: Individual Empowerment with More Unintended Consequence -- Chapter 2 : Growing Demographic Crunch for Everybody Except Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3: A Malthusian World of Scarcities Increasingly Likely for the Poor -- Chapter 4 Technology with Downside -- Part 2: The Breakdown of Post-Cold War Order -- Chapter 5: Conflict Risk Increasing -- Chapter 6: Middle East: High Risk of Continuing Conflict -- Chapter 7: China's Linchpin Role in the Global Order -- Chapter 8: The Difficult Transition to a Post-Western Order -- Part 3: Alternative Futures -- Chapter 9: The Big Picture -- About the Author
Summary
"What will the world be like in 2035? The forecast seems dire. In the four years since Global Trends 2030 was published, the biggest change in the world is the increased risk of major conflict. In 2012, a large-scale US/NATO conflict with Russia or China was close to unthinkable. Now, the post-Cold War security order has broken down, and the consequences are immense, potentially threatening globalization
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"September 22, 2016"--Table of contents page
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Atlantic Council, viewed September 26, 2016)