A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the global economy. For generations, everything was getting faster, better, and cheaper. We reached the point where almost anything you could want could be delivered to your door in days - even hours - once you decided. America made this possible, but now it has lost interest in continuing this phenomenon. Global supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. dollar supports internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. America's security policy forced warmongering countries to abandon their weapons. Billions of people have been educated and fed as the America-driven trade system spread across the world. All of this was artificial. All of this was temporary. All of this is ending. In the book The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to produce their own products, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do all these with shrinking and aging populations. The list of countries that can achieve this is smaller than you think. This means that everything about our interdependent world - from how we make products, to how we grow food, keep the lights on, transport everything, and pay for it all - is about to change. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan leads us on an enlightening (and slightly terrifying) journey full of insight, acumen, and his trademark wit.