{"product_id":"9781455583683","title":"The Accidental Superpower","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe World is Flat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Next 100 Years\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNear the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the world's oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWe think of this system as normal - it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Superpower\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFor most, that is a disaster-in-waiting, but not for the Americans. The shale revolution allows Americans to sidestep an increasingly dangerous energy market. Only the United States boasts a youth population large enough to escape the sucking maw of global aging. Most important, geography will matter more than ever in a de-globalizing world, and America's geography is simply sublime.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peter Zeihan","offers":[{"title":"Grand Central Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback  |  2016-02-23","offer_id":44564489863423,"sku":"9781455583683","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b8380524-9c37-4498-8844-5557c5e53622.jpg?v=1701375239","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781455583683","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}