America, Iran, and a World in Turmoil

The war in Iran may have come to an end, but both the course and the conclusion of that war have brought into sharp relief the forces that increasingly define a world of weaponized power and systemic risk: unconstrained leaders willing to gamble with military force; the search for, and use of, economic leverage; technologies destabilizing both decision-making and development models; and old alliances fracturing and new alignments forming.

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Ian Bremmer is a leading geopolitical analyst and the president and founder of the Eurasia Group. His most recent piece for Foreign Affairs is about the long-term consequences of the Iran war, but he has also written on shifts in global power, the effect of technology on geopolitics, and much else. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Bremmer on Monday, June 22, about how to make sense of today’s global turmoil.

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Sources:

“The Long Shadow of the Iran War” by Ian Bremmer and Firas Maksad

“America and Israel’s War to Remake the Middle East” by Dana Stroul

“The AI Power Paradox” by Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman

“The Technopolar Moment” by Ian Bremmer

This episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview was produced by Mary Kate Godfrey and Kanishk Tharoor, with audio engineering by Christopher Koch and original music by Robin Hilton. Special thanks to Irina Hogan.

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