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Every Nation for Itself
Ian Bremmer
Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
Portfolio
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 1591844681
EAN: 9781591844686
Kindle: B005GSZJGG
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G-Zero — JEE-ZEER-oh —n A world order in which
no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet
the challenges of global leadership.
If the worst
threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a
global health crisis, the collapse of financial institutions
from New York to Shanghai and Mumbai—where would the world
look for leadership? The United States, with its paralyzed
politics and battered balance sheet? A European Union
reeling from self-inflicted wounds? China’s “people’s
democracy”? Perhaps Brazil, Turkey, or India, the
geopolitical Rookies of the Year? Or some grand coalition of
survivors, the last nations standing after half a decade of
recession-induced turmoil?
How about none of the
above?
For the first time in seven decades, there
is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on
the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the
United States, Europe, and Japan were the world’s
powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the
global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find
their footing.
Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian
Bremmer argues that the world is facing a leadership vacuum.
The diverse political and economic values of the G20 have
produced global gridlock. Now that so many challenges
transcend borders—from the stability of the global economy
and climate change to cyberattacks, terrorism, and the
security of food and water—the need for international
cooperation has never been greater. A lack of global
leadership will provoke uncertainty, volatility,
competition, and, in some cases, open conflict. Bremmer
explains the risk that the world will become a series of
gated communities as power is regionalized instead of
globalized. In the generation to come, negotiations on
economic and trade issues are likely to be just as fraught
as recent debates over nuclear nonproliferation and climate
change.
Disaster, thankfully, is never assured,
and Bremmer details where the levers of power can still be
found and how to exercise them for the common good. That’s
important, because the one certainty of weakened nations and
enfeebled institutions is that someone will try to take
advantage of them.
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