Global Trendometer. Essays on medium- and long-term global trends. Autumn 2016

With the publication of this inaugural edition of the 'Global Trendometer', the EPRS Global Trends Unit seeks to contribute to the process of identifying and addressing medium- and long-term trends, and their possible implications for policy-making in the European Union. Three essays and eight two-page vignettes on different geopolitical, economic, technological and social issues paint a broad-ranging picture of developments that may shape Europe’s future.

Three Essays:
+ Water Scarcity: an avoidable crisis?
+ Increasing inequality: from a social and political challenge to an economic problem?
+ Foundations of US military power in 2030: leading from the front or from behind?

Vignettes
+ The Asian century: economic powerhouse or stuck in transit
+ Jobless growth: will robots and computers destroy our jobs?
+ Blockchains and trust: a revolution, reformation or just another tech-toy?
+ Additive Manufacturing in 2030: how the next Gutenberg revolution may bring production back to Europe
+ Intolerance and hate crime: the return of an old problem?
+ The mobile internet and democracy: less citizen empowerment than we thought?
+ Russia and China in 2030: authoritarian alliance or geopolitical rivals?
+ Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa in 2030

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, October 2016: Global Trendometer. Essays on medium- and long-term global trends. Autumn 2016 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/573301/EPRS_STU(2016)573301_EN.pdf

Blog: EP: EPRS, 16.12.16: Global Trends to 2030: Society and Governance https://epthinktank.eu/2016/12/16/global-trends-to-2030-society-and-governance/

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