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Global Trends 2025

By jlutz99

The National Intelligence Council has released its report Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World.  Here are some of its preliminary assessments:

• The whole international system?as constructed following WWII?will be revolutionized. Not only will new players?Brazil, Russia, India and China? have a seat at the international high table, they will bring new stakes and rules of the game.
• The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future.
• Unprecedented economic growth, coupled with 1.5 billion more people, will put pressure on resources?particularly energy, food, and water?raising the specter of scarcities emerging as demand outstrips supply.
• The potential for conflict will increase owing partly to political turbulence in parts of the greater Middle East.

Read the report here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on October 27, 2009 (boomark / email).