How did Interwar Periods folks/sf writer imagine the politics of the 21 century? What is their prediction on what nation will survive, how the globe will look like, and what nations become superpower? And what is the best PoD(s) to realize that?
"Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future" by Olaf Stapledon and "The Shape of Things to Come" by H. G. Wells are basically future history timelines written in early 30s, so you can start from them.
There’s “Lord of the World” from the early 1900s about the early 21st century which is very catholic and very pessimistic. It did make some accurate predictions and a lot of not so accurate predictions
There’s “Lord of the World” from the early 1900s about the early 21st century which is very catholic and very pessimistic. It did make some accurate predictions and a lot of not so accurate predictions
Oddly, from all three stories, Last and First Men to Come, the most far-reaching and scifi-y out of three, have the most down-to earth "near future" prediction