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Flashpoints

The Emerging Crisis in Europe

George Friedman
Doubleday Broadway, 2015

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8

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  • Comprehensive
  • Overview
  • Insider's Take

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Founder and former chairman of Stratfor – a leading private intelligence company – George Friedman is a media consultant in international geopolitics and author of the bestsellers The Next Decade and The Next 100 Years. Here, he covers what Europe has been, what Europe is now and what forces will shape Europe in the future. Writing pre-Brexit, Friedman discusses the euro, recent European wars, currency policy, refugees, the relationship between outlying England and the currency-united continent, and how economic power translates to political power. His focus is on the multiple “flashpoints”: those European border areas “where wars are fought.” getAbstract suggests this serious, scholarly overview to policy makers, executives, investors, NGO officials, students and professors seeking a logical, concise portrait of Europe.

Take-Aways

  • Europe’s many national “borderlands” spark “flashpoints.”
  • The Balkans and Caucasus regions remain tense and apt to generate conflict.
  • More than 100 million people died from “war, genocide, purges, planned starvation,” and other causes in Europe between 1914 and 1945.

About the Author

George Friedman is the founder and former chairman of Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) – a leading private intelligence firm. He wrote the bestsellers The Next Decade and The Next 100 Years and often comments on intelligence and international geopolitics for the media.

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    A. 9 years ago
    The interview he gave to the Russian newspaper Kommersant is also very interesting, here it is as an English translation: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/stratfor-chiefs-most-blatant-coup-history-interview-translated-full/ri2561