A major new book by New York Moments bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (ANOTHER 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in European countries. This provocative work examines “flashpoints,” exclusive geopolitical hot spots where tensions possess erupted throughout background, and where conflict is because of emerge again.

“There’s a temptation, if you are about George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8 Ball.” -The NY Instances Magazine

With about Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, human population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman focuses on Europe-the world’s cultural and power nexus for days gone by five hundred years . until now. Analyzing probably the most unstable, unexpected, and interesting borderlands of European countries and Russia-and the problem lines which have existed for years and years and also have been surface zero for multiple catastrophic wars-Friedman highlights, within an unprecedentedly personal way, the flashpoints that are smoldering once more.

The modern-day European Union was crafted in large part to minimize built-in geopolitical tensions that historically have torn it aside. As Friedman demonstrates, with a mix of rich history and cultural evaluation, that design is usually declining. Flashpoints narrates a living history of Europe and points out, with great clearness, its most volatile regions: the turbulent and ever-shifting land dividing the West from Russia (a vast area that presently includes 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 life.

Through Friedman’s smooth narrative of townspeople and rivers and villages, a clear picture of areas and countries and background starts to emerge. Flashpoints is an engrossing evaluation of modern-day Europe, its remarkable previous, as well as the simmering fault lines that have awakened and you will be pivotal in the near future. This is George Friedman’s many timely and, eventually, riveting book.