New York Times Bestseller

Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years?including the pandemic?to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.

In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises?global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they're locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges that will soon confront us all.

In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their implications.

The good news? Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well and quickly enough to limit the fallout?and, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world.

Drawing on strategies both time-honored and cutting-edge, from the Marshall Plan to the Green New Deal, The Power of Crisis provides a roadmap for surviving?even thriving in?the 21st century. Bremmer shows governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen how we can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.

Ian Bremmer

Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.

In this revelatory and hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us dangerously unprepared to face a trio of life-altering and looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans are fighting one another over everything, and US and Chinese leaders are behaving as if they're locked in a new Cold War. By waging various forms of war over questions that aren't truly crises, they are missing opportunities to work with one another and with others to meet the real challenges facing all of us.

In coming years, world leaders will face viruses that are both more infectious and more deadly. Intensifying climate change will have dramatic geopolitical effects that put millions of refugees in flight and force us to reimagine how we build cities. Most dangerous of all, new technologies will disrupt our lives and destabilize our societies faster than we can understand their implications.

The good news? World political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual citizens are already working together on all these crises. The question that should keep us awake is whether they will work well enough and quickly enough to limit the fallout—and, most importantly, whether we can use these crises to innovate our way toward a better world.

Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as the Marshall Plan, the New Deal, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bremmer sets forth a roadmap for survival that shows governments, corporations, and individual citizens how to achieve a new world order that can fulfill the promise that 20th-century globalism made but could not keep.