The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller 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.

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.

乔治·弗里德曼（George Friedman）

被誉为“影子中情局局长”

生于匈牙利，父母亲是二次大战时纳粹大屠杀事件的生还者。由于政治因素，弗里德曼在三岁时随同父母移居美国。他对政治与国际关系议题特别感兴趣，在纽约市立大学主修政治科学，随后取得康乃尔大学的博士学位，毕业后在宾州的迪金森学院（Dickinson College）任 职二十余年。

除了政治科学学者与作家两个身份之外，弗里德曼也是美国民营智库机构“战略预测” (Strategic Forecasting Inc.简称Stratfor)的创办人与总裁，此机构为全球首屈一指的情资收集与预测公司，专门提供企业与各国政府关于全球的政经分析与预测。弗里德曼经常接受媒体访问，已出版过四本书，包括最近的《美国的秘密战争》。他并常常撰写有关国家安全、资讯战、电脑安全以及情资等等专文。他目前住在德州奥斯汀。