Mapping the Global: Future Report of the National Intelligence Council's

By Hutchings, Robert L.

Book Id: WPLBN0000700573
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 7.30 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Mapping the Global: Future Report of the National Intelligence Council's
Author:	Hutchings, Robert L.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; e-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Mapping the Global Future; Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Executive Summary 9 -- Methodology 19 -- Introduction 25 -- The Contradictions of Globalization -- An Expanding and Integrating Global Economy -- The Technology Revolution -- Lingering Social Inequalities -- Fictional Scenario: Davos World -- Rising Powers: the Changing Geopolitical Landscape -- Rising Asia -- Other Rising States? -- The ?Aging? Powers -- Growing Demands for Energy -- US Unipolarity?How Long Can It Last? -- Fictional Scenario: Pax Americana -- New Challenges to Governance -- Halting Progress on Democratization -- Identity Politics -- Fictional Scenario: A New Caliphate -- Pervasive Insecurity -- Transmuting International Terrorism -- Intensifying Internal Conflicts -- Rising Powers: Tinder for Conflict? -- The WMD Factor -- Fictional Scenario: Cycle of Fear -- Policy Implications 111