ARTICLE:
US global dominance 'set to wane', BBC, 21 November 2008

REPORT: GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL'S 2025 PROJECT, NIC, November 2008

Disappointing to see the NIC default to resource wars as a generalized bit of futures fear-mongering. It's just so unimaginative and reflects the NIC talking to a lot of stale academics who trot out their analogies to 19th-century colonialism and balance-of-power politics while completely discounting the profound economic--and especially financial--interdependence (the latter currently on display big time).

Not very helpful in terms of preparing people for the real dynamics ahead.

(Thanks: David Blair)