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  Since there are already loads of healthy reviews out there, this will be short. Zeihan's new, pre-COVID 19 volume "Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World" is an updating of his last two works, bringing his thesis up to 2020 and beyond. Most of the underlying ideas are still here, but maturing. Many of the author's predictions are based on geography, demographics, past actions, economics, etc. It's a very readable work, requiring no professional training to grasp. Zeihan continues to show how the Breton Woods agreement benefited the nations of the world by opening up trade, undoing colonialism, providing national and international stability, and so forth. He doesn't necessarily praise the agreement, but reports in a matter-of-fact way what it did. And now that it is unwinding, so will many of it's global benefits. Therefore, much of the book is a sketch of what the world will begin looking like as things continue to unravel and w...

The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America by Peter Zeihan My rating: 5 of 5 stars In "The Absent Superpower" Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist, speaker and author, picks up where he left off in " The Accidental Superpower ." And in these 422 pages, published in January 2017, the author revs the engine to higher RPMs, slams into first gear, and screeches out onto the track. For a hardback packed with details about geology, oil production, politics, and history, it is amazingly an engaging read! My wife, who read the book, agrees! The main focus in the book is oil production, and specifically shale. Zeihan's premise is that the shale revolution has made the U.S.A. more independent from the rest of the world. Couple that with the end of the Cold War, and the rise of isolationism (evidenced in the 2016 Presidential election), then it is highly likely the America will pull back from the larger world allowing things to go to pot...

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder Peter Zeihan Twelve A division of Hachette Publishing Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10104 www.twelvebooks.com ISBN: 9781455583669; $28.00; November 2014 5 Stars of 5 Bundled together in fifteen dense chapters and an epilogue is a confluence of geography, demographics, history, economics and geopolitics. But more than dry, dusty facts and figures is an education! This is one of the reasons we were supposed to stay awake and pay attention while taking those classes in secondary school and college! Oh, now I get it! And so Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist who has worked for the US State Department in Australia, the DC think tank community, helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, and started his own firm – Zeihan on Geopolitics – has handed off to readers a thoughtful learning-experience in his 384 page hardback, “ The Accidental S...