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🗓️ 3 May 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.4	I'm talking today with Ian Bremer, the president of the Eurasia group.
0:38.1	He's the author of the new book Every Nation for itself,
0:41.1	winners and losers in a G0 world. Ian, thanks so much for joining us. for its
0:43.2	winners and losers in a G0 world. Ian, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:45.2	My pleasure.
0:46.2	So what is a G0 world?
0:48.2	Define what you mean by that?
0:49.8	I mean a world that does not have global leadership, you know, for a very long time since
0:56.2	World War II really.
0:57.2	We lived in a world where the United States was the world's policeman, it was backstopping
1:02.0	the world's institutions, the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations
1:06.7	Security Council, all of that, the Brenton Woods Accord, really since the 2008 financial crisis, while in principle there was a G20 that was created
1:16.2	with the world's 20 largest economies that were meant to get together and provide the world public
1:21.1	goods.
1:22.1	That's really an aspirational grouping in reality what we have is a
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