喬治·弗裏德曼（George Friedman）

被譽為“影子中情局局長”

生於匈牙利，父母親是二次大戰時納粹大屠殺事件的生還者。由於政治因素，弗裏德曼在三歲時隨同父母移居美國。他對政治與國際關係議題特彆感興趣，在紐約市立大學主修政治科學，隨後取得康乃爾大學的博士學位，畢業後在賓州的迪金森學院（Dickinson College）任 職二十餘年。

除瞭政治科學學者與作傢兩個身份之外，弗裏德曼也是美國民營智庫機構“戰略預測” (Strategic Forecasting Inc.簡稱Stratfor)的創辦人與總裁，此機構為全球首屈一指的情資收集與預測公司，專門提供企業與各國政府關於全球的政經分析與預測。弗裏德曼經常接受媒體訪問，已齣版過四本書，包括最近的《美國的秘密戰爭》。他並常常撰寫有關國傢安全、資訊戰、電腦安全以及情資等等專文。他目前住在德州奧斯汀。

The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.

The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade.

In The Next Decade , George Friedman offers readers a provocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immediate future. Using Machiavelli’s The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world’s leaders—particularly the American president—and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world’s leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make—and the consequences these actions will have for us all.