|                            The Next Decade                                 |
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 |                Where We've Been... And Where We're Going                   |
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 | DATE: 2012-06-06  SIZE: 2,68MB   DISKS: 01_______4,77MB      PAGES:        |
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 | PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group  GENRE: Political Science      |
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 | AUTHOR: George Friedman                                                    |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB   PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: https://is_gd/277lNX                                                   |
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 978-0-385-53295-2                                |
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 : The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years   :
 : now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the :
 : imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world,       :
 : specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade's   :
 : leaders.                                                                   :
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 : The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the   :
 : Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we    :
 : learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be      :
 : moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when :
 : labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking     :
 : shape in the next decade.                                                  :
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 : In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a pro­vocative and      :
 : endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi­ate future. Using           :
 : Machiavelli's The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world's       :
 : leaders--particularly the American president--and with his trusted         :
 : geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to :
 : play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of         :
 : extraordinary challenge, and puts the world's leaders under a microscope to:
 : explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make--and the      :
 : consequences these actions will have for us all.                           :