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Ian Bremmer

President and founder, Eurasia Group

Ian Bremmer is President and Founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading global research and advisory firm, and GZERO Media, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging news coverage of international affairs. He is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets and for establishing it as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets — “those countries where politics matters at least as much as economics for market outcomes” — has become an industry standard. “G-Zero”, his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely used by policymakers and thought leaders. Bremmer is the author of eleven books including The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tulane University. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. Ian is also a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Articles by Ian Bremmer

Politics

Why Trump is ready to lose the midterms

As the US midterms loom and polls plunge, Donald Trump appears strangely indifferent to his party’s fate. US commentator Ian Bremmer argues that despite Trump’s claims of rigged systems, US institutional guardrails will hold as the post-Trump era nears.

Ian Bremmer

07 Aug 2026

Politics

Unravelled: How the Iran war triggers a global realignment

Beyond immediate economic chaos and regional instability, the US-Israeli conflict with Iran is catalysing a historic global realignment. From a fractured Middle East and a widening transatlantic rift to China’s burgeoning influence over energy and diplomacy, the war is forcing allies and rivals alike to redraw the map of 21st-century power, observes US commentator Ian Bremmer.

Ian Bremmer

06 May 2026

Politics

Trump unbound: The US unravels the world order it built

US President Donald Trump has recently been making a lot of moves that go against the accepted rules of international relations. US commentator Ian Bremmer analyses the effects of Trump’s unreined actions.

Ian Bremmer

08 Jan 2026

Politics

Trump 2.0 will slow, not kill, the global energy transition

US commentator Ian Bremmer asserts that the US and the world’s push towards clean energy will continue, despite Trump’s recent policy indications.

Ian Bremmer

13 Mar 2025