The end of the world is just the beginning : mapping the collapse of globalization / Peter Zeihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeihan, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Forecasting.

Economic development.

International relations--Forecasting.

International relations.

Geopolitics.

Globalization--Forecasting.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xi, 497 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"-- Provided by publisher.

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going. Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe. All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending. In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.--Publisher website.

Contents:

The end of an era

Transport

Finance

Energy

Industrial materials

Manufacturing

Agriculture.

The end of an era. How the beginning began ; Enter the accidental superpower ; And now for something completely different ; The story of... us ; History speeds up ; Learning a scary word ; The end of more ; Messy, messy models ; The last bits of more ; A quick note from the author... and Moscow

Transport. The long, long road ; Breaking free: industrializing transport ; The Americanization of trade ; The great unmaking ; Harbors in the storm

Finance. Currencies: navigating the road less traveled ; Adventures in capital ; Disaster is relative ; The end of more, redux: demographics and capital ; A credit compendium ; Finagling future financing failures

Energy. Harpooning progress ; The order's order for oil ; The map of oil: contemporary edition ; There's more to oil than oil ; Fueling the future

Industrial materials. Disassembling history ; The essential materials ; The future materials ; The always materials ; The funky materials ; The reliable materials ; This is how the world ends

Manufacturing. Crafting the world we know ; The map of the present ; The map of the future ; Manufacturing a new world

Agriculture. What's at stake ; The geopolitics of vulnerability ; Avoiding, or accepting, the worst ; Mitigating famine ; Expanding the diet, shrinking the diet ; Agriculture and climate change ; Feeding a new world ; The long ride of the third horseman.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Zeihan, Peter. End of the world is just the beginning

ISBN:

9780063230477

006323047X

OCLC:

1304833686