Ian Bremmer

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Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is a political scientist specializing on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy.

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 Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is a columnist for The International Herald Tribune and the webzine Slate, and a contributing editor at The National Interest. Bremmer has also written for such publications as The Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Survival, Fortune, The Financial Times, 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 Wall Street. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street’s first global political risk index, now the DESIX (Deutsche Bank Eurasia Group Stability Index)—a joint venture with investment bank Deutsche Bank. Bremmer's definition of an emerging market as "a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market"^[1] 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.

1 Selected Bibliography
- 1.1 Books
- 1.2 Essays
2 External links

[edit] Selected Bibliography

[edit] Books

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall. (Simon & Schuster, 2006). ISBN 0-7432-7471-7
Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management & Risk Assessment. (edited with Paul Bracken and David Gordon), (Eurasia Group: 2005).
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