Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer | |
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| Occupation | Political scientist, author, entrepreneur |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | B.A., Tulane University Ph.D., Stanford University |
| Website | |
| http://www.eurasiagroup.net/about-eurasia-group/who-is/ian-bremmer | |
Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, the global political risk consultancy. He is of Armenian and German descent.[1]
Bremmer’s books include the bestselling The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine,[1] and The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (Oxford University Press, 2009, with Preston Keat). He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and Survival. Bremmer has also written for such publications as The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times.
Bremmer is most widely known for advances in the field of political risk and, more directly, bringing political science as a discipline to the financial markets. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street’s first global political risk index, now the GPRI (Global Political Risk Index) —a joint venture with investment bank Citigroup. Bremmer's definition of an emerging market as "a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market"[2] is a standard reference in the political risk field.
Among his professional appointments, Bremmer presently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the Advisory Board of the Westport Public Library. In 2007, he was named as a 'Young Global Leader' of the World Economic Forum.
Bremmer received his B.A. at Tulane University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He then served on 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. http://booksellers.penguin.com/enwiki/static/forms/Adult-Hardcover-January-April-2010-Frontlist.xls
Selected Bibliography
Books
- The End of the Free Market. (New York: Portfolio, 2010).
- The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing. (with Preston Keat), (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). ISBN 0-195-32855-8
- Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management & Risk Assessment. (edited with Paul Bracken and David Gordon), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). ISBN 0-521-88315-6
- The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall. (Simon & Schuster, 2006; revised paperback, 2007). ISBN 0-7432-7471-7
- New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations. (edited with Raymond Taras), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). ISBN 0-521-57799-3
- Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States. (edited with Raymond Taras), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; 5th printing, 1994). ISBN 0-521-43860-8
- Soviet Nationalities Problems. (edited with Norman Naimark), (Stanford: Stanford Center for Russian and East European Studies: 1990). ISBN 0-87725-195-9
Essays
- State Capitalism Comes of Age, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2009.
- AIG and 'Political Risk', with Sean West, The Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2009
- Outrage is an Unaffordable Luxury, The Washington Post, March 18, 2009
- Expect the World Economy to Suffer through 2009, with Nouriel Roubini, The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2009
- Reasons to be Gloomy, Slate, September 18, 2008
- Threat or Opportunity? What Sovereign Wealth Funds Mean for US Companies, with Juan Pujadas, The View, Summer 2008
- A Political Scientist in China, Slate, October 5, 2007
- The Dawn of the Next Cold War, Newsweek International, February 26, 2007
- In the Right Direction, The National Interest, Jan/Feb 2007
- Hedging Political Risk in China, with Fareed Zakaria, Harvard Business Review, November 2006
- Lowering the Temperature, Comment is Free, October 20, 2006
- The World is J-Curved, Washington Post, October 1, 2006
- Prices Transform Oil into a Weapon, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2005
- Managing Risk in an Unstable World, Harvard Business Review, June 2005
- George Kennan's Lessons for the War on Terror, International Herald Tribune, March 24, 2005
- Diary of a Political Scientist, Slate, February 2-6, 2004
Blogs
Interviews
- PWC interview with Bremmer, CEOs
- PWC interview with Bremmer on political risk
- Mckinsey Quarterly interview with Bremmer
- Bremmer at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Bremmer interview in Newsweek
- Bremmer's J Curve in the Daily Telegraph
- The J Curve on BBC Newsnight
- SFO interview with Bremmer
Research
Ian Bremmer's research interests include:
- International political economy;
- Geoeconomics and geopolitics;
- States in transition and global emerging markets;
- Global political risk;
- US foreign policy
References
- ^ "Here's how the world works". Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ^ Managing Risk in an Unstable World
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