Ian Bremmer

Infobox Writer
name = Ian Bremmer
bgcolour = silver
birthdate =birth date and age|1969|11|12
birthplace = United States
alma_mater= Tulane University
occupation = Political scientist
nationality = United States

Ian Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist specializing on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, the global political risk consultancy. He is of Armenian and German descent. [cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1530208/Here%27s-how-the-world-works.html|title=Here's how the world works|accessdate=2008-08-01]

Bremmer’s books include the bestselling "" (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine, [http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8380365] and "Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States" (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is a regular contributor to "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 GPRI (Global Political Risk Index)—a joint venture with investment bank Citigroup. Bremmer's definition of an emerging market as "a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market" [ [http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/product.jhtml?login=BREM060105&password=BREM060105&pid=1126] ] 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.

Selected Bibliography

Books

*"The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World". (with Preston Keat), (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). ISBN 0-195-32855-8
*" [http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521883153 Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management & Risk Assessment] ". (edited with Paul Bracken and David Gordon), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). ISBN 0-521-88315-6
*" [http://www.jcurvebook.com The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall] ". (Simon & Schuster, 2006; revised paperback, 2007). ISBN 0-7432-7471-7
*"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

Essays

* [http://www.slate.com/id/2175245/ A Political Scientist in China] , "Slate", October 5, 2007
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202833/site/newsweek/ The Dawn of the Next Cold War] , "Newsweek International", February 26, 2007
* [http://www.jcurvebook.com/tni_jf2007.pdf In the Right Direction] , "The National Interest", Jan/Feb 2007
* [http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/viewFileNavBeanImplicit.jhtml?_requestid=44421 Hedging Political Risk in China] , with Fareed Zakaria, "Harvard Business Review", November 2006
* [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian_bremmer/2006/10/ian_bremmer.html Lowering the Temperature] , "Comment is Free", October 20, 2006
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901325.html The World is J-Curved] , "Washington Post", October 1, 2006
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/26/news/edbremmer.php Prices Transform Oil into a Weapon] , "International Herald Tribune", August 27, 2005
* [http://www.jcurvebook.com/HBR.pdf Managing Risk in an Unstable World] , "Harvard Business Review", June 2005
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/23/opinion/edbremmer.php George Kennan's Lessons for the War on Terror] , "International Herald Tribune", March 24, 2005

References

External links

Ian Bremmer

* [http://img.slate.com/id/2094743/entry/2094767/ Diary of a Political Scientist on Slate]
* [http://www.pwc.com/extweb/insights.nsf/docid/CA861D8B272133748525728B0077D64E PWC interview with Bremmer, CEOs]
* [http://www.cfr.org/publication/12150/voices_of_the_next_generation.html Bremmer at the Council on Foreign Relations]
* [http://www.eurasiagroup.net/about/index_people.php Bremmer bio at Eurasia Group]
* [http://blogs.ft.com/davosblog/ian_bremmer/index.html Bremmer Davos blog for the Financial Times]
* [http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/854 Ian Bremmer’s articles at Project Syndicate]
* [http://www.jcurvebook.com "The J Curve" official website]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=QN4ZP2HUQCBFLQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/09/30/wjcurve30.xml&page=1 Bremmer's J Curve in the Daily Telegraph]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5411212.stm The J Curve on BBC Newsnight]

Eurasia Group

* [http://www.eurasiagroup.net Official website]
* [http://www.eurasiagroup.net/press/article_0305-22.html Economist profile of Eurasia Group]
* [http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=eurasia%20group&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wn Google News on Eurasia Group]
* [http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=96448 PWC-Eurasia Group study on multinational corporations and political risk]