The international system as constructed following the second world war will be almost unrecognizable by 2025 owing to the rise of emerging powers a globalizing economy an historic transfer of relative wealth and economic power from west to east and the growing influence of nonstate actors by 2025 the international system will be a global multipolar one with gaps in national power continuing to narrow between developed and developing countries. Global trends 2025 a transformed world published november 2008 the national intelligence council prepared this report to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends. We prepared global trends 2025 a transformed world to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends the factors that drive them where they seem to be headed and how they might interact it uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in which the drivers examined in the study eg globalization. Global trends 2025 a transformed world national intelligence council cosimo inc mar 1 2010 political science 124 pages 0 reviews from the muslimization of western europe to the impact of hiv aids around the planet from the trials of the coming post petroleum world to the tactical implications of an ice free arctic the nations of earth are facing more radical change than ever