Ian Bremmer Books

To understand the G-Zero world, we first have to recognize how the grand structure of international leadership has evolved — and decayed. During the Cold War, the global system was defined by clear polarity. The United States and the Soviet Union provided not only competing ideologies but also frame...

From Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

China, India, Brazil — these names conjure visions of energy, growth, and shifting global balance. Yet one of the paradoxes of the G-Zero world is that even as power diffuses eastward and southward, the appetite for global leadership has not followed. Each of these countries has its own priorities a...

From Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

At the dawn of the 1990s, the fall of the Soviet Union seemed to usher in a global consensus: free markets and liberal democracy would spread prosperity across all borders. For many in the professional and political classes, that dream came true. Corporations expanded globally; capital flowed freer ...

From Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

The economic story of globalization is one of astonishing productivity — and equally astonishing unevenness. While world GDP soared, inequality within nations deepened. In the developed world, wages for the middle and working classes stagnated even as the wealth of the top one percent surged. Free ...

From Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism