Looking forward: What will Europe look like in 2021

Niall Ferguson, a history professor  at Harvard University and the author of “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” offers his thoughts on what the Continent will look like in 2021.

Which nation dominates Europe? Did the European Union survive the current political and financial crisis? How did events in the Middle East and Africa impact the course of a decade? Ferguson attempts to answer – or predict – some of these questions in the Wall Street Journal Saturday Essay.