top risks 2024

A look back at the Top Risks of 2024

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.

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Microsoft's Middle East Digital Commitment

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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.