Gloomy with a Glimpse of Sunshine: US global leadership, Middle East settlement, the end of the Putin era, the diminishing likelihood of conflict over Taiwan and the challenges of the third nuclear era
By 2034, the United States will remain the global leader, Israel will normalise diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, Vladimir Putin will have left the political stage, and Ukraine is likely to have returned the territories occupied in 2022 and joined the EU and NATO — this is the future outlined by the results of a large-scale expert survey conducted by the Atlantic Council.