The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century is a bestselling 2009 book on international relations and geopolitics by George Friedman the Hungarian-born American futurologist, political scientist, geopolitical author on international relations and writer. George Friedman founded Stratfor, a private intelligence and forecasting company.

An excerpt of Amazon's summary of the book The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century:

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George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which nations will gain and lose economic and political power, and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century. The Next 100 Years draws on a fascinating exploration of history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years. Friedman shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, at the dawn of a new era—with changes in store, including: - The U.S.-Jihadist war will conclude — replaced by a second full-blown cold war with Russia. - China will undergo a major extended internal crisis, and Mexico will emerge as an important world power. - A new global war will unfold toward the middle of the century between the United States and an unexpected coalition from Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Far East; but armies will be much smaller and wars will be less deadly. - Technology will focus on space—both for major military uses and for a dramatic new energy resource that will have radical environmental implications. - The United States will experience a Golden Age in the second half of the century.

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Friedman also predicted that NATO will dissolve due to Germany and France not wanting to antagonize Russia as their dependence on Russia’s natural gas will further increase in the 21st century.

2015 revision of predictions made in the book

In 2015, Stratfor published a forecast for 2015 to 2025 which revised the predictions concerning China and Russia made in the book (See: Decade Forecast: 2015-2025, Stratfor, 2015).

Rather than the Russian government completely collapsing, Strator forecasted that the Russian government would lose a lot of its power. In addition, Stratfor predicted that Russia would gradually break up into a series of semi-autonomous regions.

Also, while the book had forecasted that China's fragmentation was more probable than a reintroduction of authoritarian rule, the 2015 updated analysis predicted that regional fragmentation was now a less probable scenario with the most likely result being the reintroduction of authoritarian rule.

Book

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman. Anchor; Reprint edition (January 26, 2010)

George Friedman on his book The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Video interview:

• The Next 100 Years: A forecast for the 21st century - George Friedman, Part 1 - video
• The Next 100 Years: A forecast for the 21st Century. George Friedman (p2), Part 2 - video

Book summaries

• The Next 100 Years, 12min.com
• Summary of George Friedman 's The Next 100 Years, Everand.com

Videos:

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century - video summaries

Book reviews

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, Publishers Weekly
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, 2023 (Muhammad Shehryar, working on Bachelor's in International Relations at the University of Peshawar)
• The Next 100 Years Review, 2018
• My views on the book "The Next 100 Years (Forecast for the 21st Century) by George Friedman" by Siddhartha Gupta, a CEO of a Mettl (An India based AI-powered talent and skill assessments company)
• Book Review: The Next 100 Years by Ryan Anderson

Videos:

• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century - book reviews

See also

• The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order