WHAT'S NEXT?

From the world’s leading experts on geopolitical risk comes a guide to the major global issues and policies sure to dominate headlines in the next few years.

In the last four years, the world has suffered a financial market meltdown andsubsequent global recession. The eurozone crisis looms, the Middle East is in turmoil, and a shifting power balance between emerging markets and developed economies is reordering the global economy as a whole. Political and economic challenges intertwine now more than ever before, as the demands of local politics and global business grow increasingly complex andbegin to conflict in new ways. Facing these new challenges, what will the future hold? In WHAT’S NEXT? Ian Bremmer and Douglas Rediker, together with experts, analysts, andmany of their colleagues from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk, analyze these global issues and provide a template to understand how they will change our world in the next few years. Focusing in on the most volatile, powerful, or misunderstood developments, the authors examine the risks to the International Monetary Fund, Russia’s future, the roles of emerging markets, and the future of US foreignpolicy. They assess the political roots of the eurozone crisis, the key questions surrounding Afghanistan, important trends and tensions underway in the Asia-Pacific region, and the rise of regionalism in the wake of fracturing international governance. Most importantly, they provide a reminder that our world is constantly changing and offer guidance on how to understand some of the keydynamics in the evolving global game.
PROMOTED BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: The book will be released on the first day of the WEF Summit on the Global Agenda 2012 in Dubai. It has a foreword by Klaus Schwab, the founder and chairman of the WEF, andwill be promoted by the WEF. Not only will summit attendees be the likely audience for the book, but the summit itself will help pull the book and the topics it covers into the news.

Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of Eurasia Group. He has authored several books, including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself and The End of the Free Market. He is a contributor for the Financial Times A-List and Reuters.com and served as chairman of the Global Agenda Council onGeopolitical Risk. Presently he teaches at Columbia University. Douglas Rediker previously represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. Following almost two decades in international financial markets, he co-founded and directed the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation, where he is currently a Senior Fellow. He served as chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk.