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Article: Who are we, who are they?(forecast about the shape of the world in 2050)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 31, 1999
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The war in Kosovo has helped to clear people's minds about the likely shape of the world in 2050, and how we can help to make it a better place, says Brian Beedham
HALF a century from now, what will the map of the world look like? And will the unexpected turbulence of the 1990s have made it look radically different from the way it does now? Those are the questions this survey will try to answer. It sounds pretty misty; but in fact the broad outlines of an answer are at last starting to emerge through the mist. The war in Kosovo, fumblingly fought though it was at the start, is one large clue to the likely shape of the mid-21st-century world.
"The map of ...