TY - BOOK AU - Zeihan,Peter TI - The accidental superpower: ten years on SN - 9781538767344 AV - JZ1480 .Z44 2014 U1 - 327.73 23 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Twelve KW - Twenty-first century KW - Forecasts KW - World politics KW - 21st century KW - Forecasting KW - United States KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes index; "The next generation of American preeminence and the coming global disorder."--Cover N2 - In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy that - alone among the developed nations - is rapidly approaching energy independence. Combined, these factors are doing nothing less than overturning the global system and ushering in a new (dis)order ER -