Author and President of Eurasia Group

Ian Bremmer

Available May 1st, 2012

In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the world economy and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty. The G-Zero, a leaderless world of every nation for itself, will undermine our ability to keep the peace, expand opportunity, and feed growing populations. The resulting upheaval will be felt in every region of the world.

  • INTERVIEW
    NPR Weekend Edition

    Ian Bremmer talks with Scott Simon about whether or not the G-8 still matters.

  • REVIEW
    New Yorker

    Evan Osnos takes a long, perceptive look at Ian Bremmer's Every Nation for itself.

  • ARTICLE
    For U.S. leadership, less is more

    In an opinion piece for Politico, Ian Bremmer argues that Putin's snub of the G-8 summit on May 18 should actually help the US.

  • ARTICLE
    America’s very own safe haven curse

    Ian Bremmer and David Gordon discuss the benefits and downsides to the US’s safe-haven status in the Financial Times.

  • ARTICLE
    America's G-Zero moment

    In Project Syndicate, Ian Bremmer explains how the G-Zero world is not all bad for the US – if it plays its cards right.

  • ARTICLE
    Africa and the power of the pivot

    In the International Herald Tribune, Ian Bremmer explains how Africa is the world’s most underrated growth story — in part because many of its governments have developed the resilience that comes with the ability to pivot.

  • REVIEW
    USA Today

    Alexander Heffner, reviewing Ian Bremmer's Every Nation for Itself in USA Today, approves of the G-Zero concept.

  • ARTICLE
    Welcome to the new world disorder

    In Foreign Policy, Ian Bremmer says since the G-8 is not about to save the world - it's time the US started planning for the G-Zero. He lays out five post-G-Zero scenarios that may arise.

  • INTERVIEW
    Danger of a leaderless world

    Ian Bremmer talks with Financial Times comment and analysis editor Alec Russell about why US investors are less perturbed about the eurozone crisis than last year, and on the perils of an increasingly isolationist America.

  • INTERVIEW
    NPR Planet Money

    In this podcast, Ian Bremmer takes Adam Davidson on a world tour and talks about who strives and who struggles in a G-Zero world.

  • ARTICLE
    Five myths about America’s decline

    In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Ian Bremmer says those seeing America's decline as inevitable do not just ignore the nation’s history of resilience, they also misread the facts on the ground.

  • REVIEW
    The world that America built

    Mark Leonard for New Statesman writes, "Bremmer’s smart and snappy Every Nation for Itself provides the most cogent prediction of how the politics of a post-American world will play out."

  • ARTICLE
    The Middle East will suffer from our G-zero world

    In the Financial Times, Ian Bremmer explains how nowhere will the lack of global leadership allow for more near-term turmoil than in the Middle East.

  • INTERVIEW
    Ian Bremmer interviewed by Foreign Policy

    David Rothkopf speaks to Ian Bremmer about the new math of geopolitics and whether it all adds up to G-Zero.

  • Article
    The future belongs to the flexible

    In the Wall Street Journal, Ian Bremmer discusses how in the emerging global order, the key to a country's success will be courting multiple partners.

  • REVIEW
    Foreign Affairs reviews "Every Nation for Itself"

    G. John Ikenberry reviews Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World for Foreign Affairs.

  • Article
    For presidential candidates, can foreign policy reflect America's waning power?

    In the Daily Beast, Ian Bremmer says the days are gone when the U.S. led major powers in the decisions that ruled the planet.

  • Interview
    Ian Bremmer interviewed by Salon

    Thomas Rogers speaks to Ian Bremmer about America’s new isolationism, the cyber-attack threat and why China will never replace the USA.  

  • REVIEW
    Every Nation for Itself reviewed in World Politics Review

    Thomas P.M. Barnett discusses Every Nation for Itself and the new rules of globalization in a post-hegemonic world.

  • REVIEW
    Financial Times review of Every Nation for Itself

    John Lloyd calls Ian Bremmer "a prodigy in the US global commentariat." He says, "...it is harder still to imagine a world in which, absent the US, a relatively liberal order is maintained. Mr. Bremmer's rehearsal of the consequences should make us all wise up."

  • ARTICLE
    Will Russia shift from Syria to Greece?

    In the Financial Times, Ian Bremmer writes that in a post Bashar al-Assad world, Greece may replace Syria as Russia's preferred economic partner in the Mediterranean region.

  • DEBATE
    Does China do capitalism better than the US?

    On March 13, Ian Bremmer participated in an Intelligence Squared debate, with Orville Schell, Peter Schiff, and Minxin Pei.

  • ARTICLE
    $200 oil and the Moscow-Beijing alliance

    Foreign Policy talks to Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini about the toll of war with Iran -- and why China and Russia just don't care anymore what the United States thinks of them.

  • REVIEW
    Huffington Post review of Every Nation for Itself

    Devin Stewart at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs writes for Huffington Post,"Every Nation for Itself provides a fresh perspective on world politics. It is an exciting contribution to the galaxy of big ideas on international affairs."

  • ARTICLE
    Enforcing oil sanctions against Iran could threaten the global economy

    Can Barack Obama remain tough on Iran without sabotaging the US economic recovery? Ian Bremmer, David Gordon and Cliff Kupchan discuss in the Financial Times.

     

  • DEBATE
    Can the big brains at Davos rescue a global economy in crisis?

    Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini debate on ForeignPolicy.com.

  • ARTICLE
    A G-Zero world and the rise of regions

    “In response to the global power vacuum, we'll see a return to geography as a primary organizing principle,” write Ian Bremmer and Steve Clemons in The Atlantic.

  • DEBATE
    Is state capitalism a viable alternative to liberal capitalism?

    Ian Bremmer debates Aldo Musacchio in The Economist.

  • ARTICLE
    The G-Zero order

    Ian Bremmer and David Gordon in The International Herald Tribune: The eurozone crisis is the most significant current expression of the emerging G-Zero world order.

  • ARTICLE
    Decline of global institutions means we best embrace regionalism

    "The dearth of truly effective global institutions is consistent with a broader geopolitical trend, one in which the global agenda is increasingly influenced as much on a regional level as on a global one," writes Ian Bremmer in The Financial Times.

  • ARTICLE
    2012 will be no 1979

    The three headline risks for 2012 – eurozone collapse, year-long US gridlock and an economic “hard landing” in China – aren’t really risks at all in 2012, according to Ian Bremmer and David Gordon in USA Today.

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"Global political economy has no sharper or more prescient analyst than Ian Bremmer."
— Lawrence Summers
former U.S. Treasury secretary; Charles W. Eliot University professor of Harvard University
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