The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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Peter Zeihan argues that the conditions supporting deeply integrated global trade are weakening and that countries will face sharply different adjustment pressures.
The book connects demographics, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation in a forecast of a more fragmented world economy.
It concludes the Zeihan sequence by asking how resilience and vulnerability might change when long-distance economic relationships become harder to sustain.
Why I include it
Look past the dramatic title to Zeihan’s connections among energy, food, manufacturing, and population. Those links are the reason to read it: they give substance to his argument that the systems supporting globalization could change profoundly.
