A Brief History Of The Future: A Brave And Controversial Look At The Twenty-First Century - Plot & Excerpts
The arms race is over. All countries seem to have realized that economic growth brought them much more than conquest. Never, in fact, has the world as a whole been so pacific, in appearance at least. There is today no war between two countries for the first time in more than six decades. And yet, as with the ending of every form, at the same time as states are unmaking themselves and super-empire looms on the horizon, a new pre-war begins. When the market is universal, differences are flattened out and each entity becomes everyone’s rival. When the state weakens, the possibility of channeling and mastering violence disappears. Local conflicts multiply, identities are threatened, ambitions clash, human lives no longer have value. The disappearance of the Soviet Union has eliminated one of the world’s policemen. And further, the coming failure of super-empire, the sophistication of weaponry, and the proliferation of players might even converge (in the bosom of super-empire) to trigger a global conflict.
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