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008			141105s2015 nyub 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780385536332 (hardcover)
020			_z9780385536349 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aD2024 _bFRI 2014
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100	1		_aFriedman, George.
245	1	0	_aFlashpoints : _bthe emerging crisis in Europe / _cGeorge Friedman.
246	3		_aFlash points
250			_a2nd.
260			_aNew York : _bAnchor Books, _c2016.
300			_axxii, 258 pages : _bmaps ; _c25 cm.
520	2		_a"A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years, The Next Decade) with a bold thesis about coming conflict in the world, this provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints--particularly in Europe--in which imminent future conflicts are brewing. George Friedman has forecasted the coming trends (politics, technology, population, and culture) of the next century in The Next 100 Years, and focused his predictions on the coming ten years in The Next Decade. Now, in Flashpoints, Friedman zooms in on the region that has, for five hundred years, been the cultural hotbed of the world--Europe--and examines the most basic and fascinating building block of the region: culture. Analyzing the fault lines that have existed for centuries--and which have led to two world wars and dozens more conflicts--Friedman walks us through the 'flashpoints' that are still smoldering beneath the surface and are on course to erupt again. In Flashpoints, George Friedman begins with a fascinating history of the events leading up to the horrific wars that nearly tore apart Western civilization--killing over 100 million people on the 'civilized' European continent. Modern-day Europe, and the formation of the European Union, were designed to minimize the built-in geopolitical tensions that led to catastrophic war, but as Friedman shows with a mix of history and cultural analysis, those plans have failed. 'Flashpoints' are now simmering as dangerously as in the early twentieth century. Zeroing in on half a dozen locations, borderlands, and cultural dynamics, George Friedman does what few historians can--he explains precisely how certain trends are unstoppable, and what the future holds, both in terms of conflict and also opportunity. Flashpoints also explains in riveting detail how events in Europe will affect the rest of the world--from the United States to Russia, from China to Latin America. Continuing in his bestselling tradition, he reveals a geopolitical landscape that is at once a scintillating history lesson and a forecast for the coming years"--
650		0	_aGeopolitics _zEurope _xForecasting.
650		0	_aPolitics and culture _zEurope _xForecasting.
650		0	_aCulture conflict _zEurope _xForecasting.
650		0	_aSocial prediction _zEurope.
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aEurope _xPolitics and government _y21st century _xForecasting.
651		0	_aEurope _xSocial conditions _y21st century _xForecasting.
651		0	_aEurope _xHistory.
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