There has not been enough in the media about this. It’s not every day that one gets to go to cia.gov is it? This is the National Intelligence Council’s view of how the world is going to shape up towards 2020. They talked to all the “experts”, ran conferences on every continent, and came up with a new little scenario machine which lets you choose different potentials to establish what you think the world may be like. (I’ve lost the link to the try it yourself page. sorry.)
I’m not sure you’re going to get any big surprises but, if you look close enough, you get to learn a few things. Of course the prediction is that the U.S. maintains preeminence economically and militarily, BUT only just on both counts. Good old Blighty shoots out of the G8 and ends up outside of the G20. The ignomy of it all.
Oil. What oil? Exactly.
My favourite aspect of the report is it’s veiw of the UN’s future. It doesn’t have one.
