Ian Bremmer World Quotations

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.