Download or read book Preparing for the Twenty-first Century written by Paul M. Kennedy and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Kennedy brilliantly showed how powerful nation-states have repeatedly fallen into the trap of "global overreach". Now he shifts his focus to the transnational forces that will confront and transform nation-states in the coming decades: the doubling of the world population, increasing environmental degradation, advances in technology, and more.