THE POWER OF CRISIS by Ian Bremmer is intended to note "How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World." Bremmer, president and founder of global consulting firm Eurasia Group, spends the first chapter looking at "Two Collisions – us vs them, at home and abroad." He explores our domestic conflict, including widening wealth gaps and increasing income inequality, and also calls China "a police state," noting that its rise offers both opportunity and dangers. Subsequent chapters deal with "Pandemic Politics," "Climate Emergency," and "Disruptive Technologies." Unfortunately, it is rather easy to point to the critical issues which Bremmer has seemingly ignored. He only mentions Ukraine in a passing comment about a malware attack and references forced abortions in China – not the increasing restrictions in the United States or on women's rights in general. He does provide extensive notes and an index to aid researchers. To learn more, view this recent interview with Bremmer from PBS NewsHour:

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-power-of-crisis-1652996056/

The Power of Crisis by Ian Bremmer This is a book that begs for discussion and debate. I say this not as a bad thing. Mr. Bremmer is a very bright fellow who has created a business advising very smart business executives on what to do as the world changes. In this book he brings some of his thinking to all of his. He suggests three global crises affect our lives daily. – Covid Pandemics, Global Warming and AI Technology. Each of these crises will only get worse unless we as a global community figure out how to confront and find solutions for these issues for our planet. At times, I felt like ok Ian sounds great but that isn’t going to work or it would have been tried. His response to this is these issues must rise to “Goldilock’s Crises” very big but not too big. We can only hope this will be the case. The one area where I do have hope is Global Warming not because it is an easy problem to solve if we expect countries to cooperate but there is money to be made for solutions to reduce or eliminate the problem. The one area I agree with him on this point is the solution he hopes does not come from a “Techno-utopian” a brilliant, egotistic individual without the controls of stock holders. Perhaps Elon Musk or someone like him. Nevertheless, this is where we are and where we are going in which our biggest fear may not be communists, white nationalists or vegetarians but individuals who are more powerful than countries. So, I felt the major premise of the book is he is betting as he ends the book with the statement, “Necessity is the mother of cooperation.”