The Next Decade: Where We've Been...and Where We're Going

GBH Forum Network March 31, 2014
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The challenge of the next decade is not American power, says George Friedman. It is the preservation of the republic through a management of the international system that faces the fact that, intended or not, we're an empire. So long as we refuse to face that, we can't be effective. This talk took place on January 26, 2011.