The next decade : where we've been-- and where we're going / George Friedman.

Rebalancing America -- The unintended empire -- Republic, empire, and the Machiavellian president -- The financial crisis and the resurgent state -- Finding the balance of power -- The terror trap -- Redefining policy: the case of Israel -- Strategic reversal: the United States, Iran, and the Middle East -- The return of Russia -- Europe's return to history -- Facing the western Pacific -- A secure hemisphere -- Africa: a place to leave alone -- The technological and demographic imbalance -- The empire, the republic, and the decade.

The author of the book "The Next 100 Years" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade's leaders. From Islam's decline to China's financial crisis, he offers a number of scenarios and predictions.

The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade. In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a provocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immediate future. Using Machiavelli's The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world's leaders - particularly the American president - and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world's leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make - and the consequences these actions will have for us all.