About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Part One; 1 A European Life; 2 Europe's Assault on the World; 3 The Fragmentation of the European Mind; Part Two; 4 Slaughter; 5 Exhaustion; 6 The American Origins of European Integration; 7 Crisis and Division; Part Three; 8 The Wars of Maastricht; 9 The German Question Once More; 10 Mainland and Peninsula; 11 Russia and Its Borderlands; 12 France, Germany, and Their Ancient Borderlands; 13 Mediterranean Europe Between Islam and Germany; 14 Turkey on the Edge; 15 Britain; 16 Conclusion; Acknowledgments
Summary
Europe is ready to explode. Where will the explosion take place and what will the damage be? This major new book from the bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman presents a bold and provocative thesis about the likeliest locations for the coming eruptions. George Friedman forecasted coming global trends in The Next 100 Years and The Next Decade. Now, in Flashpoints, he zooms in on Europe and examines the dry tinder of the region: culture. Walking the faultlines that have existed here for centuries, Friedman inspects all the dormant social and political fissures still s
