The Next 100 Years draws on a fascinating exploration of history and geopolitical patterns dating back hundreds of years. Friedman shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, at the dawn of a new era—with changes in store, including:<br />\r\n<br />\r\n• The U.S.-Jihadist war will conclude—replaced by a second full-blown cold war with Russia.<br />\r\n• China will undergo a major extended internal crisis, and Mexico will emerge as an important world power.<br />\r\n• A new global war will unfold toward the middle of the century between the United States and an unexpected coalition from Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Far East; but armies will be much smaller and wars will be less deadly.<br />\r\n• Technology will focus on space—both for major military uses and for a dramatic new energy resource that will have radical environmental implications.<br />\r\n• The United States will experience a Golden Age in the second half of the century.