What Actually Mattered This Week: Top Risks 2025
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WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
Unveiled each January,?Top Risks—Eurasia Group’s flagship geopolitical report—reviews the ten biggest threats to nations, industries, and institutions. It helps investors, companies, and the public prepare for and respond to opportunities and challenges globally. The report is co-written by Eurasia Group's president and founder (yours truly) and our chairman Cliff Kupchan.
We can be optimistic about 2025: major wars are receding, and the U.S. presidential election had a clear, undisputed winner. But as I wrote in this year’s report: when you take a closer look, we’ve got some big problems.
The United States and China, the world's two most powerful countries are rejecting global responsibility, focusing instead on internal threats and short-term gains. This approach is failing most of their people, especially the disillusioned youth.
A “community of nations” is now the stuff of fairy tales, with governance failing to meet citizens' needs. Global challenges like climate change, technology, the economy, and national security require stronger international cooperation than current institutions can provide. Yet, the key political actors most essential to strengthening global institutions are moving in the other direction.
We are heading back to the law of the jungle. A world where the strongest do what they can, while the weakest are condemned to suffer what they must. And the former—whether states, companies, or individuals—can’t be trusted to act in the interest of those they have power over. It’s not a sustainable trajectory.
Read all 10 top risks (and red herrings) for 2025 by downloading the full report here.
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TRUTHS, DAMNED TRUTHS, AND STATISTICS
?A look at the six exclusive economic zones of the Arctic:
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THE GZERO WORLD WE’RE JUST LIVING IN
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WORLD IN 60
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PUPPET REGIME
This is the twenty-fifth time that Vladimir Putin has greeted the new year as ruler of Russia. To mark the occasion, he looks back at just how far he has come.
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BECAUSE THE INTERNET
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WHAT TO READ THIS WEEK
Life isn’t just about the risks, but opportunities too. “The Heart and the Chip" offers an optimistic (yet still realistic) glimpse into a not-so-distant future where robots play an integral role in our daily lives. ?
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DEEP THOUGHTS
“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
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I am president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and foreign affairs columnist at TIME. I currently teach at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. You can follow me on?X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok,?Instagram, and Facebook.
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3 周How can you be optimistic when Trump wants to be like his buddy Putin and take over other countries.
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1 个月Why are major wars receding Ian?
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1 个月Every time I write an article about climate change, a serious climate event occurs in the same period. While I was writing this update article, the disaster in Los Angeles (10.01.2025) is still ongoing. The city has declared a state of emergency, while the fire has also taken over Subset Boulevard, symbol of the city and of the Hollywood myth. Behind the death of dozens of people, the forced evacuation of 200 thousand people, ten thousand hectares of land gone up in smoke and more than ten thousand buildings destroyed, there is a combination of many factors, some of which are linked to climate change. which will once again cost several tens of billions of dollars.
Retraité ( retired ) / UN consultant, expert in analyzing large data sets to drive strategic decision-making.
1 个月Yes, the global institutions are moving in the other direction. We can't only be happy of ' Ukraine ending war ', but we must be fear of the great events ( law of the jungle ) to come.
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1 个月Ian Bremmer It seems that your presentation is about family quarrels or Settling of Scores at OK Corral while the rest of the World is not worthed as accounts.