Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
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2011-04-06
| Some commentators have taken to calling this moment in North Africa and the Middle East the “Arab Spring,” an awakening that might permanently cripple autocracy in the Middle East. But, while the contagion effect seems clear, there are clear limits to how far the awakening can spread.... read |
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2011-01-19
| As Lebanon turns to Saudi and Syrian mediators to help rebuild a governing coalition, Iraq moves forward with a tenuous unity government of its own. At times like these, the two countries’ similarities and differences can point Iraq’s leaders toward a stable democratic future.... read |
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2010-02-12
| As euro-zone leaders face growing uncertainty in financial markets about the public finances of Greece and other member countries, their statements, albeit somewhat vague, underscore a much larger story – one that will force firms and investors to question their assumptions about Europe’s economic, financial, and political environment.... read |
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2010-01-27
| In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the "world’s most powerful people." In 2010, we will discover that neither has the power to keep US-Chinese relations on track. ... read |
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2009-05-29
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China’s government recently announced the ambitious goal of making Shanghai a global financial capital equal to London and New York by 2020. But China’s aspirations also underscore a worrisome – and increasingly pervasive – new reality: political officials are making decisions normally left to markets on a scale not seen in decades.... read |
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2009-02-18
| A multipolar order implies that several emerging powers hold competing views about how the world should be run, and are prepared to act to advance their global agendas. That is not the case; instead, we are witnessing the birth of a non-polar order, with America’s chief competitors preoccupied with problems at home and in their immediate neighborhoods. ... read |
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2008-07-25
| There are plenty of world leaders in less-than-perfect health. But nowhere are the stakes higher than in Nigeria, where President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose kidney ailment is rumored to be terminal, embodies the country’s delicate political balance.... read |
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2008-04-03
| Africa seems to make international headlines only when disaster strikes. But, over the past several years, several sub-Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital, and recent global financial turmoil has only added to their allure, because they are less vulnerable to international volatility than are more familiar emerging economies.... read |
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2007-11-21
| When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Games in July 2001, the announcement ignited wild celebrations across the country. But as China’s leaders begin final preparations for the Games next August, they have significant reasons to doubt whether hosting the event was such a good idea after all.... read |
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Why Turkey's Army Will Stay Home
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Despite the Turkish parliament's authorization of cross-border military strikes in northern Iraq, a full-scale invasion is highly unlikely. Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is well aware that the only winner would be the militant Kurdish separatists that Turkey is trying to defeat.... read
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2006-01-21
| With the votes in Iraq’s election in December now counted, attempts to form a new government are set to move into high gear. Encouragingly, all sides appear to accept the results. But the key question concerning the future of the country remains: will Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds will unite behind a functioning central authority?... read |
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2008-07-25
| There are plenty of world leaders in less-than-perfect health. But nowhere are the stakes higher than in Nigeria, where President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose kidney ailment is rumored to be terminal, embodies the country’s delicate political balance.... read |
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2006-02-28
| With so much political friction in Iran and Iraq, it is easy to overlook the growing unrest in Nigeria, the world’s eighth-largest oil exporter. But Nigeria’s mounting social and political problems reveal how violence and uncertainty in yet another major energy producer is driving foreign investors out and global oil prices up.... read |
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2006-09-11
| On July 2, Mexico held a presidential election that triggered what has become a bitter political firefight. After conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was declared the winner by less than 1% of the vote, his populist rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, quickly claimed fraud. For the past two months, thousands of Lopez Obrador’s most fervent supporters have transformed the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, into a virtual sea of tents – the center of gravity of opposition to the official result. ... read |
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2006-05-23
| Last weekend’s announcement that Iraqi lawmakers have finally formed a unity government is welcome news, both for Iraq and for George W. Bush and Tony Blair. The American and British governments, increasingly unpopular at home, desperately needed some tangible evidence of progress to assuage their domestic critics and to begin to speak openly of an exit strategy. But Iraq’s greatest challenges lie ahead. If Bush and Blair declare victory before the real battles have begun, they will undermine the very process to which both have committed so much at such great cost.... read |
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2008-04-03
| Africa seems to make international headlines only when disaster strikes. But, over the past several years, several sub-Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital, and recent global financial turmoil has only added to their allure, because they are less vulnerable to international volatility than are more familiar emerging economies.... read |
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2006-10-19
| Like North Korea, the Iranian government will not shy from a showdown over its nuclear program. Why should it? A nuclear weapon is the ultimate guarantee that the United States can never do to Iran what it did to Iraq. Moreover, this struggle with the US rallies much-needed domestic support. ... read |
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2007-02-02
| Whatever critics at home and abroad may think, the “surge” that President Bush is planning for Iraq is more than a troop increase; it is a new and high-risk regional strategy. True, Bush’s plan will prove far too little and comes far too late to stabilize Iraq. But it does offer the United States some longer-term benefits in the regional battle with Iran for influence. ... read |
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2010-02-12
| As euro-zone leaders face growing uncertainty in financial markets about the public finances of Greece and other member countries, their statements, albeit somewhat vague, underscore a much larger story – one that will force firms and investors to question their assumptions about Europe’s economic, financial, and political environment.... read |
2010-01-27