TY - BOOK AU - COPLEY Gregory (ed) TI - 2015: the year of opportunity and danger PY - 2015/// N2 - A thorough overview of what it may be in 2015 for most communities around the world. The article covers factors which includes: 1) The decline of the West or the rise of the East?, 2) The impact of changing alliances, 3) Significant changes in leadership, 4) The increasing distortion of the nation-state, and concepts of governance and "democracy" because of ongoing urbanisation, 5) The start of the global population, 6) The decline in productivity, 7) The transformation of the technologies, economics, and doctrines of warfare, and 8) The impact of transforming commodity prices as well as transforming energy costs ER -