Peter Henry Zeihan (/ˈzaɪ.ən/; born January 18, 1973) is an American author and geopolitical analyst. He is the founder of the consulting firm Zeihan on Geopolitics and a former vice president at the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. Zeihan has written several books, including The Accidental Superpower (2014), The Absent Superpower (2017), Disunited Nations (2020), and The End of the World Is Just the Beginning (2022).
Zeihan was born in 1973 and raised in Marshalltown, Iowa, as the ado...