The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

by Peter Zeihan

The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. Because the world—our world—is breaking apart.

The American story is the story of the perfect Geography of Success. That geography determines not only American power, but also America’s role in the world.

The best farmland of the Original Thirteen resided in the Middle Atlantic colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, and New Jersey.

The American-Canadian border today is the least-patrolled and longest undefended border in the world.

only the United States has major populations on the coasts of two oceans.