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Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!).
He is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on US national public television. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many others globally.
A prolific writer, Ian is the author of 10 books, including the New York Times bestseller “Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism” which examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the Foreign Affairs Columnist and Editor at Large for Time magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.
Find him on Facebook, LinkedIn, and regularly tweeting from @IanBremmer.
The New Abnormal: Who Are The Winners & Losers In A G-Zero World? We have entered a period of heightened geopolitical and market volatility, what Ian Bremmer calls the “New Abnormal.” In the past few years, we’ve seen a financial crisis, a global recession, the Eurozone crisis, and the Arab Spring. All of this comes against the backdrop of a G-Zero world—an environment where no country or group of countries is willing and able to sustainably set the international agenda. This lack of global leadership will ensure that the ride gets even bumpier before the turbulence subsides. This world without leaders will undermine our ability over the next decade to keep the peace in Asia and the Middle East, to grow the global economy, to reverse the impact of climate change, to feed growing populations, and to protect the most basic of all necessities—air, food, and water. Its effects will be felt in every region of the world, even in cyberspace.
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How the US energy revolution will add to the uncertainty by giving the US less incentive to remain involved in the Middle East and by creating new sets of economic winners and losers
How to understand what comes next for the global economy, and why the key variable to watch is the state of US-Chinese relations
Next challenges facing the United States, Europe, and China
Asia’s evolving balance of power
The future of the Middle East
Winners and losers in a world without leaders
Crisis points—From food security to cyberspace
The global balance of power most likely to emerge from a G-Zero world
The Rise of The Different: Why The Global Order Doesn’t Work & What We Can Do About It. Today, the American-led global order faces a fundamental challenge. It is not, however, the rise of the “rest.” It’s the rise of the “different.” Rising emerging market nations are inherently less stable. What does this mean for the global order?
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Geopolitical conflict at large, from Euro-crisis and US elections to Arab Spring and Asian power politics
The best bets for US-led initiatives going forward
The future of US-China relations
The shifting balance between security and economics
New investment strategies and the power of resilience
China, India & Beyond: The opportunities and pitfalls of Asian Growth
The End of The Free Market: Who Wins The War Between States & Corporations? A generation after communism’s collapse, the future of free market capitalism isn't what it used to be. Public wealth, public investment, and public ownership have made a stunning comeback.
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The rise of state capitalism
Why it exists and how it works
The threat to free market capitalism
The various forms of state capitalism in China, Russia, the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf and Others: How they’re using markets to create wealth that can be directed toward the achievement of political goals
The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge For Strategic Investing. The fallout from the still-unfolding global financial crisis provides several perfect examples of "fat tail" risk, those that flow from the low-probability, high-impact events that generate upheaval more often than we think. An understanding of the political dynamics generated by the financial crisis helps us forecast market risks, why politics matters more than ever for market performance, why the world's wealthiest countries have begun to behave like emerging market states, and what all this means for investors and companies.
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The risks that flow from low-probability, high-impact events like the global financial crisis
Why politics matter more for the performance of markets and for issues ranging from defaults to nationalization to regulatory reforms
Why developed states are behaving more like emerging markets
The shift from New York, Shanghai, and Mumbai to Washington, Beijing, and Delhi—and the risks that this trend creates
Managing Risk In An Unstable World. To navigate globalization's choppy waters, every business leader analyzes economic risk when considering overseas investments or looking at market exposure. But do you look beyond reassuring data about per-capita income or economic growth—to assess the political risk of doing business in specific countries? If not, you may get blindsided when political forces shape markets in unexpected ways—from populist measures in advance of an election cycle to social unrest in many of the top emerging markets performers.
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How to spot political risk on the horizon and balance it against economic opportunities—and what it means for your global investments
How to understand the opportunities, and dangers, of dramatic Chinese growth
What are the trends around global terror, proliferation, and shifting geopolitics, and how it impacts global markets
The Politics of Global Energy:
How a “post-peak oil” scenario will threaten petro-states’ economies and core stability
How changing energy markets will shift the US’ global interests
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