Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status
إيان بريمر: كيف يجب أن تستغل أمريكا مكانتها كقوة عظمى؟
Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm. Full bio
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you always think about technology,
دائماً تتبادر لذهنك التكنولوجيا.
becoming more innovative.
about driverless cars these days,
of a driverless car,
and the brake, just in case.
بعجلة القيادة والمكابح تحسباً لأي طارئ.
لركوب حافلة بدون سائق.
but I am not ready for a driverless bus.
و بشكل متزايد.
for the last several generations
the World Trade Organization
our money, our standards.
أموالنا، معاييرنا.
if you want to look at how the US looks,
كيف تبدو الولايات المتحدة,
عن طريقة سير العالم.
it feels pretty comfortable.
و مريح.
saw the China trip last week
الأسبوع الماضي
of the world's leaders in China.
لقادة العالم في الصين.
was actually spewing expletives
يُطلق الشتائم
and everybody else.
about to get into a cage match, right?
الدخول في مباراة بالقفص، صحيح ؟
and they talked about Syria.
تحدثوا عن سوريا.
الإعجاب أو الثقة المتبادلة،
يملون عليه ماذا يفعل
are telling him what to do.
are getting together?
are pulling their weight.
Turkish president Erdogan what to do,
ماذا عليه أن يفعل
what's going on over there?
it's not a G20,
no single country or alliance
of global leadership.
that's history.
أصبحت من الماضي.
and capital are moving across borders
عبر الحدود
with the rest of this talk.
about the implications of that
Why are we here?
on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
العراق و أفغانستان
of middle and working classes
الطبقة الوسطى و العاملة
from promises of globalization,
or the Middle East the way we used to.
كما كنا سابقاً
in the United States.
في الولايات المتحدة.
to be the global sheriff for security
شرطى العالم
the cheerleader of global values.
للقيم العالمية.
alliance in the world
at any point since World War II,
منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية،
the Brexit conversations,
between the French and the Russians,
or the Brits and the Chinese.
البريطانيين و الصينيين.
دوراً قياديّاً أكبر.
standards, currency,
ونظامهم الخاص.
has had stability such as it is. Right?
a willingness to provide
by the US and allies.
الولايات المتحدة و حلفائها.
a lot of cheap money out of the ground
من الأموال من الأرض
the populations were relatively quiescent.
مهما كان الحكام سيئون
and many didn't have the will
لدى الكثير منهم
أنّه في عالم بلا كبار،
are increasingly not true,
and Iraq, Israel, Iran over time.
بالإضافة للعراق وإسرائيل و إيران.
it's not a good look.
الأمور على ما يرام.
he's hitting above his weight.
expanding NATO right up to their borders
حلف شمال الأطلسي قرب حدودهم
put hundreds of billions of dollars
مئات المليارات من الدولارات
they thought they had influence in.
يعتقد الروس أنهم يأثرون عليها.
The Russians are picking up the crumbs.
وستجمع روسيا الفتات.
a very tense 10 years for Mr. Putin.
تنتظر السيد (بوتن)، عشرة سنين عجاف.
about to get a third term written in
على فترة ثالثة على الأرجح
who is consolidating enormous power,
صاحب القوة الهائلة،
most important economies in Asia.
over the South China Sea.
just in the last couple of days,
في الأيام القليلة الماضية
do not feel the need
and cross-border tensions.
economic stability and growth.
والنمو الاقتصادي بعيد المدى.
in this environment.
in the Middle East
onto European shores.
the concerns of populism
والمخاوف من انتشار الإشتراكية
will be seen to have gone too far.
قد تطور كثيراً.
went right down to the Middle East,
ولأسفل حتى الشرق الأوسط،
more flat and more Americanized,
وأكثر أمركة،
those countries nearest Russia
تلك البلاد الأقرب لروسيا
economic capabilities,
and systems than core Europe.
عن قلب أوروبا.
Europe will get smaller.
and France and others
stable, wealthy, integrated.
and Turkey and others,
to the United States for decades.
للولايات المتحدة لعقود.
when Maduro falls.
after the impeachment
a new legitimate president elected there.
that is moving in another direction
of Mexican president Peña Nieto.
a slip away from the United States
on that one, too.
لهذا الأمر أيضاً.
it's going to be Africa's decade, finally.
it is absolutely an amazing time
with a lot of urbanization,
و التي على درجة عالية من المدنية،
women really getting into the workforce,
ونساؤها جزء من القوة العاملة،
and also Christianity,
lots of forced migration.
التهجير القسري.
الدول من على الخريطة.
an extreme segregation going on
and the losers across Africa.
we should be upset.
من الطبيعي أن نستاء
because they say, "Washington's broken,
" لقد حُطّمت واشنطن،
we hate the media."
يقبلون ذلك على مضض.
are taking it on the chin.
chased by the bear,
you need not outrun the bear,
ليس عليك أن تسبق الدب
your fellow campers.
أن تسبق رفقاء معسكرك.
Let's go New York real estate.
فلنستثمر في سوق العقارات في نيويورك،
to American universities."
and two big bodies of water.
would love to have neighbors like that?
أن يكون لديها جيران كهؤلاء؟
in the United States.
in Europe than the US.
من الولايات المتحدة.
in the Middle East
and we're complaining bitterly about it.
و نتذمر من ذلك.
Because they can't swim here.
لأنهم لا يستطيعون السباحة إلى هنا.
to have only 10,000 Syrian refugees.
10.000 لاجئ سوري فقط.
the Germans, the Brits. Right?
أليس كذلك؟
the global cop anymore,
شرطي العالم بعد الآن،
the architect of global trade,
مهندسي التجارة العالمية،
the cheerleader of global values,
the way we used to,
على الطريقة التى اعتدناها،
be so compelling
كي نفرض قوتنا
are going to still say,
this is a good place to be.
فأمريكا مكان آمن لنا،
is not proving a good option
لم تعطِ خياراً جيداً
it's going to be like the '90s.
أن الحال سيكون كالتسعينات.
that cheerleader on values.
the architect of global trade.
to bring us back to the '30s.
أن يرجعنا إلى الثلاثينات.
You don't like it, lump it." Right?
اتخذوه أو تقبلوا الهزيمة" صحيح ؟
a fundamental truth of the G-Zero,
حقيقة أن العالم أصبح بلا كبار،
the US is not in decline,
عن طريق ضرب المثل؟
another crisis that forces us to respond.
كارثة أخرى تجبرنا على التحرك.
crisis could do this.
the inequality, the challenges
تراجع قطّاع الصّناعة، اللامساواة،
in the United States,
to compel them to change.
neither of those things,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ian Bremmer - Political theoristIan Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm.
Why you should listen
Dubbed a "rising guru" in the field of political risk by The Economist, Ian Bremmer teaches classes on the discipline as global research professor at New York University and is a foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for Time magazine. His latest book, Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World, was published in May 2015.
Bremmer is credited with bringing the craft of political risk to financial markets. He created Wall Street's first global political risk index (GPRI), and he established political risk as an academic discipline. His definition of emerging markets -- "those countries where politics matter at least as much as economics for market outcomes" -- has become an industry standard. "G-Zero," his term for a global power vacuum in which no country is willing and able to set the international agenda, is widely accepted by policymakers and thought leaders.
Bremmer has published nine books including the national bestsellers Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World and The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? He is a regular columnist for the Financial Times and has written hundreds of articles for many leading publications. He appears regularly on CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, CNN, the BBC and other networks.
Bremmer earned a PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1994 and was the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2007, Bremmer was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, where he is the founding chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk. He is the Harold J. Newman Distinguished Fellow in Geopolitics at the Asia Society Policy Institute and serves on the President's Council of the Near East Foundation, the Leadership Council for Concordia and the Board of Trustees of Intelligence Squared.
Bremmer grew up in Boston and currently lives in New York and Washington.
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