Future Issues in International Logistics

Abstract

This chapter is brief. Rather than summarizing what has been written so far, it will attempt to look forward into the first part of the 21st century and suggest what logistical “happenings” may occur. The political balances in the world have changed. In the first part of the 20th century, tensions between western European powers were the focus of the world’s attention. After World War II, the cold war, which lasted until about 1990, involved two superpowers whose conflicts were fought on the lands of other nations. During much of the 20th century, international tensions were great.