Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe Audiobook (Free)

A major new book by NY Situations bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (ANOTHER a century), having a bold thesis about coming events in European countries. This provocative work examines “flashpoints,” unique geopolitical hot places where tensions possess erupted throughout history, and where issue is because of emerge again.

“There’s a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to take care of him just like a Magic 8 Ball.” -The NY Instances Magazine

With about Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in European countries remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, human population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman targets Europe-the world’s social and power nexus for the past five hundred years . until now. Analyzing the most unpredictable, unexpected, and amazing borderlands of Europe and Russia-and the fault lines that have existed for years and years and also have been surface zero for multiple catastrophic wars-Friedman highlights, in an unprecedentedly personal way, the flashpoints that are smoldering once again.

The modern-day EU was crafted in huge part to reduce built-in geopolitical tensions that historically have torn it apart. As Friedman demonstrates, with a variety of rich history and cultural analysis, that design is definitely failing. Flashpoints narrates a full time income history of European countries and explains, with great clearness, its most volatile regions: the turbulent and ever-shifting property dividing the Western from Russia (a vast area that presently contains Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania); the ancient borderland between France and Germany; as well as the Mediterranean, which gave rise to Judaism and Christianity and became a middle of Islamic existence.

Through Friedman’s smooth narrative of townspeople and rivers and villages, an obvious picture of regions and countries and history starts to emerge. Flashpoints is an engrossing analysis of modern-day European countries, its remarkable past, and the simmering problem lines that have awakened and you will be pivotal in the near future. This is George Friedman’s most timely and, ultimately, riveting book.