Global Trends 2014
The evolution of global circumstances is shaped by significant trends, observable over longer periods, that affect countries, regions and communities in different but related ways. The landscape in 2014 is marked by uncertainty about the global economy at the end of the deepest recession since the second World War, and the unwinding of a range of unconventional monetary policies employed to prevent the implosion of the financial sector in 2009; geopolitical tensions due to geo-economic shifts disclosing gaps in the global strategic architecture; structural pressures transforming the institutions of representative democracy; and system-wide stresses due to the impacts of a growing, rapidly urbanising human population on the bio-geosphere in which it is organically embedded. In this review, drawing on many earlier sources, Seán Cleary of the FutureWorld Foundation discusses the short-term implications of these trends.
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