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The Geopolitical Landscape. A 25 years Long-Range Projections February 2011. It’s the year 2011. What does the geopolitical landscape look like ? The return of Asia to the world stage will define the era .
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The Geopolitical Landscape A 25 years Long-Range Projections February 2011
It’s the year 2011. Whatdoes the geopoliticallandscape look like? • The returnofAsiatotheworldstage will definetheera. • The chasmbetweenthe United States and China couldwidenastheirdifferinginterestsbecomemorepronouced. • Emerging powers, evendemocraticones, will have separate agendas, making international integrationmoredifficult. • Cooperativeapproaches to an array of global issues, such as climate change, willbedifficult to accomplish. • Nonstateactors, rangingfromunofficialgoverningentities to terroristorganizations, willgrow, particularly in weak states. • The United States’ influence, diminished by the rise of other states and nonstateactors, willbefatallyundercut if the country does not curbitsunustainablereliance on debt. • Avoiding famine willdepend on a vast expansion of Africa’slagging agriculture productivity. • The resurgence of all the major religions willbemarked by post-Western versions of Christianity and a return of religious practice to secular Europe. • Half the world willexperience“fertility implosions,” thus leading to shortages of working-age populations, with only sub-Saharan Africa producing a surplus of working-age men. • The technologyrevolution, epitomized by the internet, willempowerboth people yearning for democracy and repressivetyrants. • The United States willremain the primary source of clear-eneryrevolution. • Those states that best educatetheircitizenswillwineconomiccompetition.
Take-Home Messages • The Strategic Landscape has changed Considerably • Some improvements, several entrenched problems, and slow progress in some areas for the foreseeable Future. • Several Large scale threats to the Fundamental Stability of the International Security System