The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats-And Our Response-Will Change the World

Well-known political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from the greatest crises of the last century--including the pandemic--to show how best to handle the four great crises we will face over the next decade.Two years after the worst global health crisis in a century, the world is still struggling to regain its footing. And yet the pandemic has also served as both a wake-up call and roadmap for the limited cooperation needed to navigate the challenges ahead. In this revelatory book, Bremmer lays out a series of coming crises--US-China confrontation, future health emergencies, climate change, and the AI revolution. To survive and solve these complex problems, we must learn the lessons the pandemic can teach us, work intelligently together on issues that threaten every nation, and share responsibility for the dangers that loom over all of us. Drawing on the lessons of the past century, Bremmer argues effectively that we need a crisis big enough to frighten us into building a new international system that is built for today's--and tomorrow's--purpose. Bremmer tell us what governments, corporations, and individuals can do to ensure that all the destruction of recent years will have been creative destruction and that COVID can show us how to set a new course toward a more peaceful and prosperous future. It will take vision, stamina, and a leap of faith, but if we take practical action now, we can build a better world.

About the Author :
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is also a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the BBC, Bloomberg, and many other television stations around the world. Ian has published ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism which examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. Willis Sparks focuses on top global political risks as well as US politics and elections. Willis also works directly with Eurasia Group's president Ian Bremmer on a variety of macro-political risk projects. Prior to joining Eurasia Group in 2005, Willis worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote on transnational terrorism and US national security. Willis holds an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he specialized in international security policy and the study of the former Soviet Union. He also earned an MA degree in International Relations from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Willis holds two BA degrees from Brown University and is a graduate of the Juilliard School.

Review :
Bremmer is always intelligent and perceptive and once again, he delivers! -- "Fareed Zakaria" Bremmer offers his own opinions, but more important, he will help you sharpen your own. -- "Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Superpower"