Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and the author of Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World.
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Commentaries by Ian Bremmer
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Impatient South Africa
NEW YORK – The African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid, is in serious trouble. Unfortunately, …
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A New Year of Global Conflict
DAVOS – In today’s world, identifying and managing hotspots is not simply a matter of pulling out a map, spotting the wildfires, and empower…
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Japan’s Secret Demographic Weapon
NEW YORK – As the annual World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings get underway in Tokyo, Japanese leaders must confront an unfolding …
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America’s G-Zero Moment
NEW YORK – The 2008 financial crisis marked the end of the global order as we knew it. In advance of the upcoming G-8 summit, it is impossib…
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Measuring the Revolutionary Wave
NEW YORK – A prediction three months ago that popular protests would soon topple a dictatorship in Tunisia, sweep Hosni Mubarak from power i…
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Learning from Lebanon
NEW YORK – After watching the collapse of Lebanon’s government last week, it is hard not to think about efforts to build a stable Iraq. The …
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The Greek Crisis and Beyond
NEW YORK – As euro-zone leaders face growing uncertainty in financial markets about the public finances of Greece and other member countries…
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A Year of US-China Discord?
NEW YORK – In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the “world’s most powerful people.” I…
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Capitals of Capital
NEW YORK – Recently, China’s government announced that it wants Shanghai to become a global financial capital equal to London and New York b…
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The America that Can Say No
NEW YORK – Early this month, Kyrgyzstan’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev went cap in hand to Moscow to ask for financial aid. To make his requ…
Impatient South Africa
Simon Freemantle: If indeed I have "missed the point", then it is odd that your rebuttal in fact states precisely the point I was making - that lazy analyses of South Africa's various troubles too often neglect the cou…
Impatient South Africa
Mark Y. Rosenberg: Simon, all that bombast and you miss the point. The ANC’s ‘broad church’ dominance has kept the post-apartheid political economy in place, despite deep - and growing - structural instabilities. It is…