What's Next: Essays on Geopolitics That Matter (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)

Ian Bremmer · Douglas Rediker

nov 2012 · Distribuido por Penguin

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From the world’s leading experts on geopolitical risk, a guide to the major global issues and policies sure to dominate headlines in the next few years.

In the last four years, the world has suffered a financial market meltdown and subsequent global recession. The eurozone crisis looms, the Middle East is in turmoil, and a shifting power balance between emerging markets and developed economies is reordering the global economy as a whole. Political and economic challenges intertwine now more than ever before, as the demands of local politics and global business grow increasingly complex and begin to conflict in new ways. Facing these new challenges, what will the future hold?

Ian Bremmer and Douglas Rediker, together with experts, analysts, and many of their colleagues from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk, analyze these global issues and provide a template to understand how they will change our world in the next few years. Focusing on the most volatile, powerful, or misunderstood developments, the authors examine, among other topics: 

• The risks to the International Monetary Fund
• Russia’s future
• The roles of emerging markets
• The political roots of the eurozone crisis
• Important trends and tensions in Asia-Pacific
• The rise of regionalism in the wake of fracturing international governance

Most importantly, the contributors provide guidance on how to understand some of the key dynamics in the rapidly evolving global game.

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Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of Eurasia Group. He has authored several books, including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself and The End of the Free Market. He is a contributor for the Financial Times A-List and Reuters.com, and served as chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk. He also teaches at Columbia University.

Douglas Rediker previously represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. Following almost two decades in international financial markets, he co-founded and directed the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation, where he is currently a Senior Fellow. He served as chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk.

The Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk, created by the World Economic Forum, brings together independent thought leaders from academia, government, and industry to discuss topics critical to global governance in a rapidly changing world.