The Future of Geopolitics

[00:01:32] – Peter's model of the world

[00:04:05] – What makes for a strategically advantaged country

[00:05:35] – History of the Bretton Woods agreement and the order that it created

[00:08:47] – The security apparatus that has made globalization of manufacturing possible

[00:12:04] – The US’s pullback from being the naval police of global trade

[00:14:57] – How energy has played into America’s disinterest abroad

[00:21:52] – Moving towards global disorder

[00:24:55] – Characterizing factors that will impact countries in any collapse

[00:27:38] – How this manifest in physical conflict

[00:32:44] – How the new world order will end the ease of innovation we are accustomed to today

[00:34:13] – What gets the US to reengage before this new world order

[00:38:08] – Demographics that make a country prepared for this, Japan as an example

[00:40:57] – A look at China

[00:43:59] – What the story is about Argentina

[00:45:52] – How North America fares based on their geography and relationships

[00:49:50] – The trader wars that are currently ongoing

[00:52:17] – US political system

[00:56:15] – Most important policy issues moving forward

[00:58:27] – His view on American infrastructure

[01:00:33] – Technologies that interest him the most

[01:02:55] – What he is watching most closely in his research, starting with media

[01:05:59] – What are and should be the countries of the future

[01:06:55] – Kindest thing anyone has done for Peter

[01:07:32] – Favorite places he’s been