The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

Zeihan, Peter

ISBN 10: 099850520X / ISBN 13: 9780998505206

Published by Zeihan on Geopolitics, 2017

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Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, fifth printing. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Signed by Peter Zeihan on the title page. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.76.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
• Publisher: Zeihan on Geopolitics
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099850520X
• ISBN 13: 9780998505206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: signed by author

About this title

Synopsis

The sophomore book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Terrorism spills out of the Middle East into Europe. Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan vie to see who can be most aggressive. Financial breakdown in Asia and Europe guts growth, challenging hard-won political stability.

Yet, for the Americans, these changes are fantastic. Alone among the world's powers, only the United States is geographically wealthy, demographically robust, and energy secure. That last piece - American energy security - is rapidly emerging as the most critical piece of the global picture.

The American shale revolution does more than sever the largest of the remaining ties that bind America's fate to the wider world. It re-industrializes the United States, accelerates the global Order's breakdown, and triggers a series of wide ranging military conflicts that will shape the next two decades. The common theme? Just as the global economy tips into chaos, just as global energy becomes dangerous, just as the world really needs the Americans to be engaged, the United States will be...absent.

In 2014's The Accidental Superpower, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan made the case that geographic, demographic, and energy trends were unravelling the global system. Zeihan takes the story a step further in The Absent Superpower, mapping out Russian aggression in Europe - starting with an invasion of Ukraine - and a world where an increasingly energy independent United States avoids the pitfalls of Europe and Asia's dependence on imported oil.

About the Author

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist and the founder of the consulting firm Zeihan on Geopolitics. His clients include energy corporations, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities, and the U.S. military. He is the author of The Accidental Superpower, The Absent Superpower, Disunited Nations, and The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.  He lives in Colorado.