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

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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.

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Clear and compelling Financial Times

Unflinching, but curiously hopeful South China Morning Post

Bremmers account is notable for its clear prose and concisionThe authors entirely reasonable solutions involve government action, self-sacrifice, and tolerance of opposing opinions, all of which are in short supply at the moment. An expert analysis.Kirkus

Ian Bremmers great talent is in helping us understand, in the most human terms, what must be done to protect the only world we have, and how we might do it. He takes on tomorrows questions from unexpected angles and provides us with food for thought to nourish us for many years to come. Essential reading for an anxious planet. Van Jones, CNN Host and Dream Corps Founder

If you waver between perplexed and panicked about the state of the world, my go-to guru on geopolitics is here with a dose of insight and a dash of hope. Ian Bremmer always challenges me to think deeper and broader, and in this eye-opening read he illuminates the possible paths forward on public health, politics, climate, and technology. Adam Grant, #1New York Timesbestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

We live in an era of cascading international crises. The Power of Crisis, Ian Bremmers provocative and hopeful new book, reveals how and why these global emergencies have opened windows of opportunity that we dare not waste.Jane Fraser, CEO, Citi

As always Ian Bremmer gives us a lucid and courageous analysis of the dramatic challenges our world is facing. He presents a set of proposals that world leaders should seriously consider. Antnio Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations

We are living in revolutionary times. Politics, geopolitics, technology, globalization are upending the established order. If you are wondering how to make sense of it all, read this excellent book. Ian Bremmer is always intelligent and perceptive and once again, he delivers! Fareed Zakaria, Author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Author Bio

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.