Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status
伊恩·布雷默: 美国应如何运用其超级大国的地位
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,
心中想的大都是科技议题,
becoming more innovative.
about driverless cars these days,
无人驾驶汽车,
of a driverless car,
and the brake, just in case.
我能亲自操控方向盘和刹车。
but I am not ready for a driverless bus.
至少我还没有准备好登上无人驾驶公交车。
要乘坐无人驾驶的飞机。
for the last several generations
谈的都是同一件事,对吧?
the World Trade Organization
our money, our standards.
同盟、货币、标准等。
if you want to look at how the US looks,
美国看起来是什么样的,
对于世界如何运转的印象,
it feels pretty comfortable.
saw the China trip last week
上周总统的中国之行
of the world's leaders in China.
这就是我们总统着陆的方式?
was actually spewing expletives
and everybody else.
about to get into a cage match, right?
and they talked about Syria.
讨论叙利亚的问题。
are telling him what to do.
又是什么样的?
are getting together?
are pulling their weight.
Turkish president Erdogan what to do,
埃尔多安交头接耳,
what's going on over there?
他们两个是不是又要搞事了?
it's not a G20,
no single country or alliance
of global leadership.
that's history.
也成为历史了。
and capital are moving across borders
也在不断跨境流动,
with the rest of this talk.
演讲时间中做两件事。
about the implications of that
Why are we here?
我们今天为什么会卡在这里?
on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
伊拉克和阿富汗的战争,
of middle and working classes
from promises of globalization,
全球化所带来的好处。
or the Middle East the way we used to.
依赖OPEC和中东的石油。
in the United States.
to be the global sheriff for security
再做全球安全的护航者。
the cheerleader of global values.
alliance in the world
at any point since World War II,
the Brexit conversations,
between the French and the Russians,
or the Brits and the Chinese.
但只想在经济领域上。
standards, currency,
自己的价值观、标准和货币,
has had stability such as it is. Right?
曾经稳定的原因,是不是?
a willingness to provide
by the US and allies.
提供一定程度的军事安全保障。
a lot of cheap money out of the ground
the populations were relatively quiescent.
当地人口数量却相对稳定。
and many didn't have the will
are increasingly not true,
and Iraq, Israel, Iran over time.
伊拉克,以色列,伊朗也会逐渐好起来。
it's not a good look.
he's hitting above his weight.
美国和欧盟所挑衅,
expanding NATO right up to their borders
他们的国界附近。
put hundreds of billions of dollars
they thought they had influence in.
他们认为拥有影响力的国家,
The Russians are picking up the crumbs.
而俄罗斯只能捡剩下的。
a very tense 10 years for Mr. Putin.
普京先生未来10年会非常难熬。
about to get a third term written in
日本自由民主党党魁、
who is consolidating enormous power,
他正在巩固自己的权利,
most important economies in Asia.
over the South China Sea.
just in the last couple of days,
do not feel the need
and cross-border tensions.
economic stability and growth.
in this environment.
现在的国际环境吓到了,
in the Middle East
onto European shores.
已经波及到了欧洲边境。
the concerns of populism
还有民粹主义的关注
will be seen to have gone too far.
went right down to the Middle East,
more flat and more Americanized,
更加扁平化及美国化,
those countries nearest Russia
economic capabilities,
有着不同的经济体量、
and systems than core Europe.
G7的帮助下进行扩张,
Europe will get smaller.
and France and others
stable, wealthy, integrated.
依旧稳定、富裕、互相补益。
and Turkey and others,
to the United States for decades.
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
你将看到他们逐渐背弃美国。
on that one, too.
会对那里会产生巨大的影响。
it's going to be Africa's decade, finally.
it is absolutely an amazing time
对少数非洲国家而言,
with a lot of urbanization,
同时城市化进程较快,
women really getting into the workforce,
那里妇女真正地有活可干,
and also Christianity,
lots of forced migration.
甚至大量强行吞并……
an extreme segregation going on
and the losers across Africa.
we should be upset.
我们会变的失望,
because they say, "Washington's broken,
“华盛顿变差了”,
we hate the media."
“我们痛恨媒体”,
are taking it on the chin.
chased by the bear,
you need not outrun the bear,
your fellow campers.
让他们成为被吃掉的就好了。
Let's go New York real estate.
“我们去纽约买房”,
to American universities."
and two big bodies of water.
would love to have neighbors like that?
拥有这样的邻居?
in the United States.
in Europe than the US.
in the Middle East
and we're complaining bitterly about it.
而且我们对此抱怨不断。
Because they can't swim here.
因为他们没有办法游到这里。
to have only 10,000 Syrian refugees.
他们只需接收一万名难民,
the Germans, the Brits. Right?
和英国人也是,不是么?
你要领导世界的方式,
the global cop anymore,
担任世界警察角色,
the architect of global trade,
the cheerleader of global values,
the way we used to,
be so compelling
——那是多么多令人向往。
are going to still say,
this is a good place to be.
这里仍是个好地方,
is not proving a good option
并没有一个很好的候选人
it's going to be like the '90s.
美国会像90年代那样,
that cheerleader on values.
the architect of global trade.
to bring us back to the '30s.
You don't like it, lump it." Right?
你不高兴也得忍耐”,不是么?
a fundamental truth of the G-Zero,
G0世界的根本真理,
the US is not in decline,
用模范引领世界的准备了么?
another crisis that forces us to respond.
来迫使我们作出反应。
crisis could do this.
再来一次9.11事件也可以。
the inequality, the challenges
不平等以及新的挑战
in the United States,
to compel them to change.
去强迫他们改变。
neither of those things,
我们什么都不做,
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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