top risks 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Gimhae Air Base in Gimhae, South Korea, on October 30, 2025.

Top risks of 2025, reviewed

Here’s how Eurasia Group’s 2025 Top Risks report stacked up – where it hit the mark and where it missed.

Ian Bremmer on the forces behind the geopolitical recession

Ian Bremmer on the forces behind the geopolitical recession

Are we living through a geopolitical recession? In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer explains what this means for global order, why power dynamics are shifting away from established norms, and the implications for a world without clear leadership.

Ian Bremmer: Trump is a symptom of a dysfunctional "G-Zero world"

Ian Bremmer: Trump is a symptom of a dysfunctional "G-Zero world"

In a political environment plagued by instability and polarization, who is poised to benefit? President-elect Donald Trump is the leading symptom, in many ways, and the most powerful beneficiary of the G-Zero, argues Eurasia Group founder and president Ian Bremmer during a GZERO livestream to discuss the 2025 Top Risks report.

Francis Fukuyama on the new leaderless global order

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Francis Fukuyama on the new leaderless global order

The biggest risk of 2025 is the culmination of the G-Zero World—a leaderless global order, as the U.S. retreats from its role and power vacuums invite instability. Francis Fukuyama joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World to discuss this and more.

Top Risks 2025: America's role in the crumbling global order

Top Risks 2025: America's role in the crumbling global order

Is international order on the precipice of collapse? 2025 is poised to be a turbulent year for the geopolitical landscape. From Canada and South Korea to Japan and Germany, the world faces a “deepening and rare absence of global leadership with more chaos than any time since the 1930s,” says Eurasia Group chairman Cliff Kupchan during a GZERO livestream to discuss the 2025 Top Risks report.

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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: The Top Geopolitical Risks of 2025, a live conversation with Ian Bremmer and global experts

Listen: It's officially the new year, and 2025 will bring a whole new set of challenges as governments react to the shifting policies of the incoming Trump administration, instability in the Middle East, China’s economic weakness, and a world where the global order feels increasingly tenuous. 2025 will be a year of heightened geopolitical risks and global disorder, with the world no longer aligned with the balance of power. So what should we be paying attention to, and what’s the world’s #1 concern for the year ahead? Ian Bremmer analyzes the Eurasia Group's Top Risks of 2025 report with a panel of global experts.

Unpacking the biggest global threats of 2025

Unpacking the biggest global threats of 2025

With political instability plaguing US allies, from Canada and South Korea to Japan and Germany, 2025 promises plenty of geopolitical storms. To get you up to speed, GZERO Publisher Evan Solomon sat down with Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer, Cliff Kupchan, and Jon Lieber, as well as the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, to discuss the 2025 Top Risks report.