Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmeris an American political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm with offices in New York, Washington, London, Tokyo, São Paulo, and San Francisco. As of December 2014, he is foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at Time. In 2013, he was named Global Research Professor at New York University. Eurasia Group provides analysis and expertise about how...
thinking people world
I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.
country thinking people
I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.
believe thinking political
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
believe thinking narcissistic
I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
ability gives greater marginal market power producers tight
Today's exceptionally tight market gives marginal producers unprecedented power and greater geopolitical importance. They have the ability to press. They have leverage.
energy seen since supplies worst year
Without question, this is the worst political-risk year we've seen for energy supplies since 1973.
belief creates culture education optimistic upside
The upside is the culture of entrepreneurship that comes from education and the belief in opportunities. It creates a very optimistic outlook.
iranians precisely ramp shown thus
The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.
ideas together culture
Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.
girl college age
I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.
college challenges fifteen
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
strong agendas world
Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
imf littles etc
International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.