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on the Bloomberg. It's a story defining important political outcomes. How we understand what shaped

political preferences is shifting radically. It's no longer just a case of

left and right. It's globalism versus nationalism.

The conflict between the citizen and the state, it often comes down to us versus them.

That's the title of Ian Bremer's's new book. Us versus them the failure of

globalism and I'm pleased to say that the Eurasia Group founder and president

joins us now here in New York. Ian good morning and congratulations to you.

Thank you.

Talk to me about the essence of this book and why this is so important to you right now.

It's important because I've never experienced our country so divided and when you travel travel you go to Europe and increasingly other

countries too you feel it there and and that's happening when the global

economy is doing better than at any point in over a decade which means that

we are getting something fundamentally wrong in liberal democracies with our citizens.

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