August 2nd 2016
Flashpoints. The emerging crisis in Europe. George Friedman.
Flashpoints. The emerging crisis in Europe. George Friedman.2015, ISBN 9780385536332. A clearly written analysis of today’s Europe that uses history, present day reports and what seems common sense to project believable scenarios. Combined with Studwell’s How Asia Works, this book dovetails nicely. As a bit player in the economic world, Canada should have some people who look at the world like Friedman. In a recent article, Freidman’s projections show an economic basis for Japan and Islamic Turkey in future to knock heads with the US, with the first blows happening in space. Its not such a long shot, when you take in all the arguments.
I especially appreciated his comment that Europe matters less to the US than it matters to Russia. Russia wants buffer states like before and needs to keep the oil flowing to Europe. Germany’s recent bullying of Greece ties to his analysis that Germany has to keep the exports up in order to keep prosperous, and internally there is little support to helping Greece if Germany has to take any hits. Muslim immigration, the rise of right wing parties , combined with high unemployment mean some major impacts on European nations.
Written like a journalist , so it flows along quite nicely. I suggest you read it, you may not agree but it is good food for thought.
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