"Global Trends 2025 is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events."

The hundred-page-report contains:

Executive Summary

Introduction: A Transformed World

Chapter 1: The Globalizing Economy

Chapter 2: The Demographics of Discord

Chapter 3: The New Players (including Global Scenario I: A world without the West)

Chapter 4: Scarcity in the Midst of Plenty (including Global Scenario II: October Surprise)?

Chapter 5: Growing Potential for Conflict (including Global Scenario III: BRICSs’ Bust Up)

Chapter 6: Will the International System Be Up to the Challenges (including Global Scenario IV: Politics is Not Always Local)?

Chapter 7: Power-sharing in a Multipolar World

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