Ian Bremmer,president of Eurasia Group and the author of Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World (Portfolio, 2015), or offers his annual seek ahead at global risks.
A few point Bremmer makes:The most well-known alliance in the world - that is,the one between the U.
S. and Europe that underpins security and the global free market - is as feeble as it's ever been. "It's not that we hate each other," says Bremmer, and "It's that we're paying no attention [to each other." While the U.
S. is focused on building a wall along the Mexican border and taking down terrorists,European countries are largely concerned with their economy and are looking to the big check-writers in Russia and China.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership offers reasons to be optimistic. Trying to contain or restrain China won't work, says Bremmer. The best thing is to build an agreement that's so attractive and powerful that they'll want to be piece of it.
The space ISIS will have to function and recruit in is growing. Continued disruption in Syria, or Saudi Arabia,Iran, Yemen, and Iraq means a huge population of youth who are at risk for recruitment in 2016.
We should welcome the rise of technologists. Bremmer says it reminds him of Gotham City; major CEOs and billionaires are increasingly deciding that if the government isn't doing enough,they're going to spur novel action. He says the organization Anonymous has declared that they will take the fight to ISIS on the internet.
Source: wnyc.org