Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

ian bremmer the power of crisis

The crisis we need
News

The crisis we need

Ian Bremmer’s new book, The Power of Crisis, couldn’t be any more on the news cycle. His argument is provocative, frightening, and ultimately optimistic.

Ian Bremmer: power of the "Goldilocks crisis"
Quick Take

Ian Bremmer: power of the "Goldilocks crisis"

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: This week, you know what's coming. It's my new book called The Power of Crisis. I thought I'd tease you with some of the big arguments that I'm trying to make in this book, because it's no surprise, this is a target rich environment for global crises. We've gotten through this two plus year pandemic. Now, it's still a huge problem in China and North Korea. We've got a new Cold War with the Russians, the invasion of Ukraine and confrontation with NATO. We've got climate change and over a billion Indians suffering massive heat stress, and that's only going to get worse going forward. We also have disruptive technologies, which are increasingly hard to contain and in the hands of rogue states and even non-state actors, and what are we going to do about that?