{"product_id":"9781597975513","title":"The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security \u0026 the Map of the Future","description":"\u003cbr\u003eShocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the authors’ three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Population Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c\/i\u003e determine the fate of human societies.By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than one million. Specific megacities, intimately connected to globalization, are posing huge security challenges—now. Liotta and Miskel focus intensely on effects these massive, underserved, and undergoverned cities have on international stability, human security, and environmental degradation, and offer strategies and solutions for mitigating those effects. Their stark, often stunning, portraits of major urban centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America illuminate how megacity Leviathans are redrawing the map of the future—in ways that affect us all.You may not agree with this book’s message. But it will prove difficult to forget.","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046205898992,"sku":"9781597975513","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597975513_p0.jpg?v=1763812488","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597975513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}