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A look back at the Top Risks of 2024
Analysis

A look back at the Top Risks of 2024

Every January, Eurasia Group, GZERO’s parent company, produces a report with its forecast for the top 10 geopolitical risks for the world in the year ahead. Its authors are EG President Ian Bremmer and EG Chairman Cliff Kupchan. The 2025 report will drop on Jan. 6.

But first, let’s look back at the 2024 Top Risks report – you can read the full report here – to see where Bremmer and Kupchan hit or missed the mark.

A look back at the Top Risks of 2024
Quick Take

A look back at the Top Risks of 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, Ian Bremmer looks back at Eurasia Group's Top Risks of 2024 forecast. What did he and the other analysts get right and wrong?

How Russia, North Korea, and Iran will sow chaos in 2024
by ian bremmer

How Russia, North Korea, and Iran will sow chaos in 2024

Russia, North Korea, and Iran are the world’s most powerful rogue states.

Illustration showing map of US separated by a brick wall from map of Canada
GZERO North

Off to war again?

The year ahead presents two kinds of challenges to the US and Canada: external ones from growing conflicts and internal ones, from US isolationism and what I call “Canadian insulationism.” At the moment, it’s a tossup which ones are more dangerous.

Global politics in 2024: It’s not all doom and gloom
by ian bremmer

Global politics in 2024: It’s not all doom and gloom

You might’ve come out of last week’s newsletter – and Eurasia Group’s 2024 Top Risks report – feeling a little scared about the year ahead.

A multicolored graphic captioned Top Risks 2024 and GZERO Media podcast
Podcasts

Podcast: Trouble ahead: The top global risks of 2024

Listen: In a special edition of the GZERO podcast, we're diving into our expectations for the topsy-turvy year ahead. The war in Ukraine is heading into a stalemate and possible partition. Israel's invasion of Gaza has amplified region-wide tensions that threaten to spill over into an even wider, even more disastrous, even ghastlier conflict. And in the United States, the presidential election threatens to rip apart the feeble tendrils holding together American democracy.

What would a second Trump term mean? Think Jurassic Park
GZERO Live

What would a second Trump term mean? Think Jurassic Park

If relected, Trump would learn from his mistakes in a first term, not unlike the velociraptors in the movie "Jurassic Park", one source told Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker and co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."

2024's top global risks: The trifecta of wars threatening global peace
Quick Take

2024's top global risks: The trifecta of wars threatening global peace

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: We are facing three wars that are significantly dangerous in the geopolitical environment, none of which are likely to be contained. The annual Top Risks 2024 report outlines why things are likely to get worse, not better, over the coming months.

A world of conflict: The top risks of 2024
Past Events

A world of conflict: The top risks of 2024

2024 is shaping up to be a turbulent year: the war in Ukraine and the Middle East, the United States presidential election threatening to subjugate democracy, and there's the little matter of AI. In this livestream, Ian Bremmer and a panel of leading geopolitics analysts and experts discuss these 2024 global political threats and more.

Top Risks 2024 | The Top Risks of 2024 | Ian Bremmer & Eurasia Group | A GZERO Media Live Event | Monday, January 8 | 12 pm ET | Eurasia Group & GZERO
Announcements

Watch today's livestream: 2024's Top Risks

WATCH: Ian Bremmer and a panel of leading geopolitics analysts and experts discuss Eurasia Group's newly released annual Top Risks report, which forecasts the global political threats for 2024. Evan Solomon, GZERO Media's publisher, moderates the live discussion at gzeromedia.com/toprisks.