I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, January 18th.

Joining us now, as he has done every January for a whole bunch of years in a row, is Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group and G-Zero Media.

He's also the author of the book, Us versus Them, The Failure of Globalism and the forthcoming book, The Power of Crisis,

how three threats in our response will change the world.

As some of you know, every year, Ian and his Eurasia group publishes a list of the top risks, the top political risks for 2022 through a global lens.

And he's got a list for this year.

And by the way, if you think this is just predicting

in the wind, we looked up some of this and there's a track record here now from last year's

report in 2021 on COVID and climate as political risks well before COP 26 or Omicron.

He wrote, evolution of the virus could meaningfully change the goalposts on population

immunity and vaccine effectiveness over time.

That was before Omicron or Delta.

And he wrote, the energy transition will be dominated by competition and a lack of coordination.

Of course, there will be plenty of triumphant handshakes and the appearance of climate progress.

That was before that seemed to actually happen at COP 26.

So with anticipation, we welcome Ian Bremmer back to WNYC.

Hi, Ian.

Happy New Year. Always great to have you in January. I think it's been like a decade now. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Yeah. When did you start doing top political risks of the year? Oh, back in 1998, but I was thinking more meaningfully about your and my partnership, which of course is always a highlight for any New York.

Right.

I guess we picked up on each other about 10 years ago.

You're right.

All right.

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