2024-03-19
35 分钟As a political scientist and founder of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer helps business leaders, policymakers and the general public make sense of the world. He gives a stirring analysis of the current state of global affairs and explains what makes 2024 so complex. Ian and Adam discuss the cyclical nature of geopolitics, what’s different about today’s crisis of democracy, and what we can do as individuals to cope with it. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts
Ted audio collective.
Hey, everyone, it's Adam Grant.
Welcome back to rethinking my podcast on the science of what makes us tick with the Ted audio collective.
I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
My guest today is Ian Bremmer.
He's a political scientist and my favorite thinker on geopolitics.
And I have a lot of questions for him about the state of the world.
I expect that we're not just, like, straight on talking about geopolitics, right?
You're interested in methodology, you're interested in strategy, you're interested in how people think the way they do.
So my assumption is that you have a hook that is adjacent to my day to day expertise and not directly on it.
You know me too well, Ian.
Am I right?
Yeah.
We're gonna be 30 degrees off anything you're fully qualified to speak on.
That's my goal.
That's awesome.
As the founder and president of Eurasia Group, Ian runs research and consulting projects to help leaders understand and manage geopolitical risk.
He also hosts Gzero World, a show on PBS.
And he gave the most popular TED talk of all of 2023.
So I thought it was time to get his help making sense of the mess the world is in.