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The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats and Our Response Will Change the World
By (Author) Ian Bremmer
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
2nd August 2023
22nd June 2023
United States
General
Non Fiction
303.4
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 213mm, Spine 18mm
234g
New York Times Bestseller
Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 yearsincluding the pandemicto show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.
In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crisesglobal health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if theyre locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges that will soon confront us all.
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their implications.
The good news Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well and quickly enough to limit the falloutand, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world.
Drawing on strategies both time-honored and cutting-edge, from the Marshall Plan to the Green New Deal, The Power of Crisis provides a roadmap for survivingeven thriving inthe 21st century. Bremmer shows governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen how we can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.
Ian Bremmer is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the worlds leading global 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 theNew York TimesbestsellerUs vs.Them: The Failure of Globalismwhich examines the rise of populism across the world. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large forTimemagazine. He currently teaches at Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University.