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Author Burrows, Mathew, author

Title Global Risks 2035 : the Search for a New Normal / Mathew J. Burrows ; foreword by Brent Scowcroft
Published Washington, D.C. : Atlantic Council, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (73 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Series Strategy paper
Strategy paper (Atlantic Council of the United States)
Contents 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
Notes "September 22, 2016"--Table of contents page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Atlantic Council, viewed September 26, 2016)
Subject Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Social change -- Forecasting
Social prediction.
Economic forecasting.
Globalization.
Security, International -- Forecasting
Balance of power -- Forecasting
World politics -- 21st century -- Forecasting
International relations -- Forecasting.
International economic relations -- Forecasting
globalism.
Economic forecasting.
Globalization.
International economic relations -- Forecasting.
International relations -- Forecasting.
Security, International -- Forecasting.
Social change -- Forecasting.
Social prediction.
Twenty-first century.
World politics -- Forecasting.
Genre/Form Forecasts.
Form Electronic book
Author Atlantic Council of the United States, publisher, issuing body.
ISBN 9781619774667
1619774666
Other Titles Search for a New Normal