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Global trends 2030 : alternative worlds : a publication of the National Intelligence Council.

This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years. As with the NIC's previous Global Trends reports, we do not seek to predict the future, which would be an impossibl...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Intelligence Council (U.S.)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: December 2012. [publisher not identified] ; [date of publication not identified]
[Washington, DC] : National Intelligence Council, 2012.
Subjects:
Twenty-first century > Forecasts.
Economic forecasting.
Social prediction.
World politics > 21st century > Forecasting.
International relations > Forecasting.
International economic relations > Forecasting.
Balance of power > Forecasting.
Online Access:http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Megatrends. Individual empowerment
  • Diffusion of power
  • Demographic patterns
  • Growing food, water, and energy nexus
  • Game-changers. The crisis-prone global economy
  • The governance gap
  • The potential for increased conflict
  • Wider scope of regional instability
  • The impact of new technologies
  • The role of the United States
  • Alternative worlds. Stalled engines
  • Fusion
  • Gini-out-of-the-bottle
  • Nonstate world.