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IAN
BREMMER
Expertise Eurasian states in transition; nation and state-building, US foreign policy, global emerging market risk. Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. Bremmer's research focuses on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. His five books include The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006), selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006. A previous book, Nations & Politics in Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press, 1993, 1994), which became the standard college text on the post-Soviet states. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street's first global political risk index, now the Global Political Risk Index (GPRI)--which features detailed analysis of political, social, security and economic developments tailored to meet the needs of emerging market investors, and represents the first time political science methodology has ever been used on Wall Street to assess risk. Bremmer has also published over 200 articles and essays in The Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, Survival, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, World Policy Journal, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The International Herald Tribune and the webzine Slate, contributing editor at The National Interest, and a political commentator on CNN, FoxNews and CNBC Dr. Bremmer has spent much of his time advising world leaders who share a commitment to a pro-engagement US foreign policy towards the developing world, including US Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, and former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. Dr. Bremmer received his PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He went on to the faculty of the Hoover Institution where, at 25, he became the Institution's youngest ever National Fellow. He has held research and faculty positions at Columbia University (where he presently teaches), the EastWest Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the World Policy Institute, where he has served as Senior Fellow since 1997. He lives in New York. Honors &
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Education
Languages
French (reading)
Contact bremmer(at)eurasiagroup.net
BOOKS
Simon & Schuster, 2007
“Timely, thoughtful, and written with verve and clarity, this is an impressive work of analysis and prescription,” -- Strobe Talbott. Reviewed by Andrew Engel, on February 7, 2008.
Nations & Politics in Soviet Successor States (with Robert Conquest and Ray Taras) Cambridge University Press, 1993; 5th printing, 1994
New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations Cambridge University Press, 1996
(with Norman Naimark) Stanford Univ Center for Russian & East European Studies, 1990
SELECTED ARTICLES “Africa’s Frontier Markets,” for the Daily Times (Pakistan), April 17, 2008. "The Turmoil Olympics," realclearpolitics.com, April 13, 2008.
"Don't Look for Change Quite Yet," International Herald Tribune, March 5, 2008.
"Invasive Procedures," The National Interest, February 29, 2008.
"Adios Comondante: How did Fidel Castro Stay in Power for So Long?" Slate, February 19, 2008.
“Impressions from Davos,” for National Interest online on January 29, 2008 and blogged from Davos for ft.com.
Announced Eurasia Group’s annual list of Top Risks on January 7, 2008.
"Hugo Chavez's Most Dangerous Enemy? It's Chavez Himself," on The Huffingtonpost.com November 14, 2007.
Too Much Success? International Herald Tribune. October 19, 2007.
“The twilight nears for Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf,” The Daily Star, Sep. 11, 2007.
“Zimbabwe’s Ruined Economy Signals End for Mugabe,” realclearpolitics.com, Aug. 7, 2007.
"Who's in Charge in the Kremlin?" World Policy Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2005/06.
"The Saudi Paradox," World Policy Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2004.
"The Russian Roller Coaster," World Policy Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2003/04.
"Bush and Putin's Tentative Embrace," with Alexander Zaslavsky. World Policy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2001/02.
"Russia's Total Security," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999.
"Oil Politics: America and the Riches of the Caspian Basin," World Policy Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1998.
MEDIA
Announced Eurasia Group’s annual list of Top Risks on January 7, 2008.
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
Keynote speaker at Major Business Forum, January 17, 2008 in Grand Cayman.
Spoke at the World Alternative Investment Summit, Montreal Canada, Nov. 5-7, 2007.
Authors@Google welcomed Ian Bremmer to the NY office on May 4, 2007. Video.
Was invited to speak by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to speak on current political and economic issues at the Chicago Club, September 13, 2006.
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