{"product_id":"9781455583683","title":"The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the bestselling tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe World Is Flat \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Next 100 Years\u003c\/i\u003e, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe think of this system as normal-it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030854025456,"sku":"9781455583683","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781455583683_p0.jpg?v=1763855628","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781455583683","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}