Understanding the pendulum swing of global power with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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As a political scientist and founder of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer helps business leaders, policymakers and the general public make sense of the world. He gives a stirring analysis of the current state of global affairs and explains what makes 2024 so complex. Ian and Adam discuss the cyclical nature of geopolitics, what’s different about today’s crisis of democracy, and what we can do as individuals to cope with it.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective. Stay updated on Everything Business on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by
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0:18.9	you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions like,
0:23.2	how do four day work week's work?
0:25.2	Do will a machine ever take my job?
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0:30.0	wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:37.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick
0:41.0	with the TED Audio Collective.
0:42.0	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective.
0:42.9	I'm an organizational psychologist
0:44.7	and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:47.6	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:57.2	My guest today is Ian Bremer. He's a political scientist and my favorite thinker on geopolitics. And I have a lot of questions for him about the
1:01.1	state of the world. I expect that we're not just like
1:04.7	straight on talking about geopolitics, right? You're interested in methodology,
1:09.4	you're interested in strategy, you're interested in how people think the way they do so my
1:13.6	assumption is that you have a hook that is adjacent to my day-to-day
1:19.8	expertise and not directly on you know me too too well Ian. Am I right? Am I right?
1:25.0	Yeah, we're gonna be 30 degrees off anything you're fully qualified to speak on.
1:29.4	That's my goal. That's awesome. As the founder and president of Eurasia Group, Ian runs research and consulting projects to help leaders understand and manage geopolitical risk.
1:41.0	He also hosts G0 World, a show on PBS, and he gave the most popular TED Talk of all of
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