Download or read book Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World written by C. Thomas Fingar and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Nat. Intell. Council to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they may be headed, and how they might interact. It uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in which the drivers examined in the study (e.g., globalization, demography, the rise of new powers, the decay of internat. institutions, climate change, and the geopolitics of energy) may interact to generate challenges and opportunities for future decisionmakers. Contents: The Globalizing Economy; The Demographics of Discord; The New Players; Scarcity in the Midst of Plenty?; Growing Potential for Conflict; BRIC¿s Bust-Up: Will the Internat. System Be Up to the Challenges?; Power-sharing in a Multipolar World. Illus.