Exploring the Geopolitical Challenges of a World Without Global Governance: Disunited Nations

CosCob: Found this book very informative, comprehensive and engaging. Follow-up fits right in

United States on Dec 22, 2023

Client d'Amazon: L'auteur se base sur les données les plus factuelles et pérennes possibles comme la démographie et la géographie pour en tirer des conclusions qui se sont déjà vérifiées correctes avec ses ouvrages précédents.
Et tant pis si au passage cela détruit les préjugés et conceptions les plus couramment admisses.

France on Mar 15, 2023

Alexandre Fernandes de Alencar: O autor cobre de forma bastante completa os diferentes cenários e regiões de conflito e competição econômica ao redor do planeta. Cada país de relevância no contexto global é avaliado em detalhes, sob um ponto de vista global e de relações internacionais. Aspectos geográficos, politicos, militares, econômicos e demográficos são os pilares dessas analises.
Ao final, temos um panorama geral, onde o autor se arrisca a prever como será a nova ordem global nas próximas décadas.
Interessante no geral, apenas com a ressalva de seu ponto de vista ser um pouco excessivamente EUA-centrista, avalizando uma posição exageradamente otimista a seu respeito (a despeito da óbvia grande liderança e poder dessa nação)

Brazil on May 15, 2021

Martin P. Wilkins: Peter clearly has researched the state of many countries and is capable of giving a historic summary right up to current state of affairs. He holds no punches and tells it like it is with accuracy backed up with facts. Highly recommended for any budding historian and those interested in the massive geopolitical change the world is currently now going through.

Canada on Apr 04, 2021

Adam Corson-Finnerty: Review Article: Disunited Nations, The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
By Peter Zeihan, Harper Business, 2020

As an idealist and a liberal, this is the world I would like to see:

The countries of the world unite to combat Global Warming. We address global and regional health challenges. We continue the upward path in combatting hunger and pulling our fellow humans out of poverty. We avoid war. We strengthen democracy and the rule of law throughout the world. We successfully end racism and dampen the violence born of ethnic and national rivalries. Women everywhere achieve full legal and social equality. We all think of ourselves as “World Citizens.” Our goals for the future can be summarized as liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. “Happiness” not meaning jollity, but as a translation of the Greek concept of eudemonia, meaning human flourishing or prosperity.

This is not the world that Peter Zeihan predicts. Instead of eudemonia he foresees pandemonia.
The world we know is collapsing. …[The global future will be] a disastrous combination of the battle royales and displacements of the 1870s against the economic backdrop of...

United States on Aug 14, 2020

Michael: This is the second Peter Zeihan book I’ve read in 72 hours. I find it gripping. Its predictions may not all be news to students of geopolitics but to this reader of The Economist it is still shockingly revelatory.

Zeihan paints a sweeping picture of geopolitics but with a firm grasp of detail. Unlike so many books on very broad subjects (future of the planet for next few decades, anyone?), this still feels like it has grasped its subject fully and each argument is consummately backed up with clear evidence.

Paradoxically, while the conclusions of this book are shocking for almost everyone except Americans, it has been immensely enjoyable. I’ve been as gripped by this intellectually heavy weight book as I have been by any trashy thriller. That is quite a feat.

United Kingdom on Jul 07, 2020

Mark Taylor: In Zeihan's latest book, he summarizes much of what he has written in his first two books. This gives you a broad overview of the world, its weaknesses and its strengths. Zeihan's theisis is that the US created a military and economic order that provided lasting stability for the past 70 years. The US is losing interest in maintaining that order because it is largely self-sufficient in all basic needs. In a growing period of US indifference, the broader world will face challenges that it has never successfully overcome and will fail to overcome in the future.

The US along with Mexico and Canada will be relatively safe and secure, but other places in the world are in trouble. China especially faces insurmountable odds of survival. A country that cannot feed itself and which imports ten million barrels of oil a day will not remain intact. China makes money from exporting finished goods to the rest of the world. Without control of the global oceans, how can China continue to import food and energy while exporting products without a navy to protect sea lanes.

For Germany, it is clear that they have taken the short term view of the world, assuming that today will be kije...

Germany on Mar 08, 2020

John E. Pombrio: Summary for a long review: Excellent book. A grim and brutally honest geographical, political, and military summary of several of the strongest and most influential nations. Most of these countries will be massively changed for the worst by America's ongoing rapid military withdrawal in world affairs that started with the end of the cold war pacts against the Soviet Union. This reads like a Tom Clancy book for coming wars, countries crashing down, power vacuums, and a dystopian future. It should sell well. One half star off for the long history lessons and not giving timelines or probabilities on particular events listed actually occurring.

I read the book in one go. This is the third book by Peter Zeihan and his second best. “Accidental Superpower” is his best book as it is a global summary of why certain countries have strong economies due mostly to what they have in the way of geography, resources, governments, and safe borders. I consider it essential reading to fully understand Disunited Nations. If this is your first time reading Peter’s books, buy both. Read Accidental Superpower first, and then this book. I definitely would go for the hard copies as there are...

United States on Mar 05, 2020