The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan's 2022 argument that the post-WWII era of globalization and American-enforced free trade is ending — and that the deglobalization it produces will be catastrophic for most of the world (especially China and Europe) while moderately bad for the energy-independent, food-sufficient United States.

Creates the geopolitical argument for deglobalization as structural rather than cyclical — Zeihan argues that the American-provided global security order (which enabled globalization) is being voluntarily withdrawn, and the demographic and geographic vulnerabilities this exposes will cause economic collapse across most of the world.