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Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and author of Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World. He tweets as @ianbremmer.

Articles by Ian Bremmer

In the West Asia crisis, an opportunity for China

Aware that Beijing’s economy faces slower growth and that the adventurism of Donald Trump in West Asia and Vladimir Putin in Ukraine have done them and their countries no favours, Chinese President Xi Jinping has avoided using America’s current distractions to take on new risks. (Reuters)

Updated on May 8, 2026 15:20 IST

A rare winner in the war on Iran is China

China is still the region’s biggest oil customer. Trade between China and West Asia, which has tripled in the past two decades, will continue to grow. The region has also become an increasingly important market for Chinese exports. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 11, 2026 18:14 IST

This moment in history & role of middle powers

Middle powers know that opportunities to defend their interests from US and Chinese dominance won’t remain open forever. (Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 11, 2026 14:57 IST

A new paradigm in Russia-Ukraine war

Kremlin showing up at the Istanbul meeting fresh off this embarrassment suggests it may be starting to realise that Kyiv has cards to play. (AP)

Updated on Jun 5, 2025 14:59 IST

Trump’s big, not so beautiful, trade wall

Trump is a lame duck — he doesn’t have to run for office again. He cares about is his legacy, and he is maximally convinced of his ability to cement it (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 8, 2025 13:31 IST

Trump’s tariff wall is a break with the past

At its core, the tariff wall strategy has an audience of one: China (AP)

Updated on Mar 14, 2025 15:47 IST

Trump 2.0 will slow, not kill, the global energy transition

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a business session with U.S. governors who are in town for the National Governors Association's (NGA) annual winter meeting, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 21, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 17:08 IST

Looming threats of a China-US standoff

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands ahead of their bilateral meeting during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 12, 2025 18:15 IST

How Trump’s America First policy will impact the world

The stakes are higher, and the implications of an unpredictable “America First” foreign policy much more far-reaching than they were in 2016, with a higher likelihood of more extreme outcomes (AP)

Updated on Nov 29, 2024 15:22 IST

A transnational structure to govern AI for the world

"Summit of the Future" at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, September 23, 2024. BRYAN R. SMITH/Pool via REUTERS (via REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 11, 2024 15:43 IST

Understanding Kamala Harris’ foreign policy

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds, in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 25, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard (REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 11, 2024 16:08 IST

How China views the Trump vs Harris fight

The Chinese flag flies outside a commercial building in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Photographer: Raul Ariano/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Updated on Sep 2, 2024 15:43 IST

A Biden-sized problem for the US Democrats

US President Joe Biden wipes his eye as he speaks during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Jul 13, 2024 15:44 IST

Road ahead for PM Modi, India in a China +1 world

New Delhi, Jun 10 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar pose for a group picture with the newly sworn-in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Council of Ministers during the oath-taking ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on Sunday. (ANI Photo) (ANI/ PIB)

Updated on Jun 21, 2024 15:14 IST

The West steps up for Kyiv. Will it be enough?

Smoke rises from a household item shopping mall which was hit by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 25, 2024. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

Updated on May 25, 2024 16:40 IST

A second Trump term and US foreign policy

Former President Donald Trump speaks after hearing at New York Criminal Court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. New York Judge Juan M. Merchan has scheduled an April 15 trial date in Trump's hush money case.

Updated on Mar 26, 2024 02:30 IST

EU restates its mandate with Ukraine aid deal

FILE PHOTO: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a European Union summit in Brussels, Belgium February 1, 2024. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo

Updated on Feb 15, 2024 16:20 IST

America against itself, as the presidential election nears

Donald Trump and president Joe Biden (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Updated on Jan 12, 2024 16:26 IST

In the West, support for Ukraine is waning

FILE - An armored personnel carrier burns and damaged Russian light utility vehicles stand abandoned after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 27, 2022. Vladimir Putin on Friday Dec. 8, 2023 moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for another six years, announcing his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election that he is all but certain to win. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko, File)

Updated on Dec 9, 2023 16:42 IST

Lost in the chaos, news you can trust

Smoke rises during an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City, November 9 (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 13, 2023 03:30 IST

What is causing the United States to become less stable?

Despite Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat in the 2020 election, the failed insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, the US remains a mature democracy on the right side of the curve (AFP)

Updated on Oct 14, 2021 07:19 IST

In Brazil, a battle of populists — from the Right and the Left

Over the past few years, Brazil’s citizens have endured the worst recession in the country’s history, one of the world’s highest Covid-19 death tolls, a surge in violent crime, and global controversy over large-scale destruction in the Amazon forest. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 6, 2021 14:16 IST

A fractured response to coronavirus | Opinion

Brace yourself for much more political drama in the weeks ahead

Updated on Mar 10, 2020 16:45 IST

An era of adverse climate, geopolitics and economy

It is now a genuine political issue as extreme climate events have increased, in both frequency and severity. Politicians will have both less political space and resources to devote to the issue as globalisation stalls and both economics and geopolitics head into the downswing of their respective cycles

Updated on Dec 14, 2019 12:37 IST

The proliferation of popular protests | Opinion

A demonstrator throws a brick on Pedder Street during a lunchtime protest in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, Nov 13. Hong Kong protests continue, flummoxing one of the world’s most significant economic power centres

Updated on Nov 16, 2019 14:24 IST

Trump will survive, but the worst is yet to come

Even a failed impeachment bid will have impact on American politics going forward. The first and most obvious effect is on the president himself, who has already begun displaying erratic behaviour, both on Twitter and in real life

Updated on Oct 13, 2019 01:14 IST

The promise of liberal democracy lives on within different political cultures

Much of the fear for democracy’s future centres on hardening international attitudes toward Donald Trump and the United States

Updated on Jun 29, 2019 14:26 IST

Leaders must weigh the political risks of new systems they introduce

Back in 2010, the Indian government launched Aadhaar, an ambitious biometric identification system, to help keep track of the social services being provided to India’s 1.34 billion citizens

Updated on May 10, 2019 14:02 IST

Europe is facing several challenges beyond Brexit

Protesters take part in a March for Europe to protest the Britain's vote to leave the European Union, London, July 2, 2016

Updated on Apr 10, 2019 16:57 IST

How much ground has democracy lost in recent years?

In China, 30 years ago, an audacious public protest in the capital’s central square pushed China’s autocrats to the brink

Updated on Mar 9, 2019 11:49 IST

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