Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status
伊恩·佈雷默: 美國應如何運用其超級大國的地位
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議題,
becoming more innovative.
about driverless cars these days,
無人駕駛汽車,
of a driverless car,
and the brake, just in case.
我能親自操控方向盤和刹車。
but I am not ready for a driverless bus.
至少我還沒有準備好登上無人駕駛巴士。
要乘坐無人駕駛的飛機。
for the last several generations
談的都是同一件事,對吧?
the World Trade Organization
our money, our standards.
同盟、貨幣、標準等
if you want to look at how the US looks,
美國看起來是什麼樣的,
對於世界如何運轉的印象,
it feels pretty comfortable.
saw the China trip last week
上周總統的中國之行
of the world's leaders in China.
這就是我們總統著陸的方式?
was actually spewing expletives
and everybody else.
about to get into a cage match, right?
and they talked about Syria.
討論敘利亞的問題。
are telling him what to do.
are getting together?
又是什麼樣的?
are pulling their weight.
Turkish president Erdogan what to do,
埃爾多安交頭接耳,
what's going on over there?
他們兩個是不是準備要亂搞了?
it's not a G20,
no single country or alliance
of global leadership.
that's history.
也成為歷史了。
and capital are moving across borders
也在不斷跨境流動,
with the rest of this talk.
演講時間中做兩件事。
about the implications of that
Why are we here?
我們今天為什麼會卡在這裡?
on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
伊拉克和阿富汗的戰爭,
of middle and working classes
from promises of globalization,
全球化所帶來的好處。
or the Middle East the way we used to.
依賴OPEC和中東的石油。
in the United States.
to be the global sheriff for security
再做全球安全的護航者。
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.
但只想在經濟領域上。
standards, currency,
自己的價值觀、標準和貨幣,
has had stability such as it is. Right?
曾經穩定的原因,是不是?
a willingness to provide
by the US and allies.
提供一定程度的軍事安全保障。
a lot of cheap money out of the ground
the populations were relatively quiescent.
當地人口數量卻相對穩定。
and many didn't have the will
are increasingly not true,
and Iraq, Israel, Iran over time.
伊拉克、以色列、伊朗也會逐漸好起來。
it's not a good look.
he's hitting above his weight.
美國和歐盟所挑倖,
expanding NATO right up to their borders
他們的國界附近。
put hundreds of billions of dollars
they thought they had influence in.
他們認為擁有影響力的國家,
The Russians are picking up the crumbs.
而俄羅斯只能撿剩下的。
a very tense 10 years for Mr. Putin.
普京先生未來10年會非常難熬。
about to get a third term written in
日本自由民主黨黨魁、
who is consolidating enormous power,
他正在鞏固自己的權力,
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.
現在的國際環境嚇到了,
in the Middle East
onto European shores.
已經波及到了歐洲邊境。
the concerns of populism
還有民粹主義的關注
will be seen to have gone too far.
went right down to the Middle East,
more flat and more Americanized,
更加扁平化及美國化,
those countries nearest Russia
economic capabilities,
有著不同的經濟量體、
and systems than core Europe.
G7的幫助下進行擴張,
Europe will get smaller.
and France and others
stable, wealthy, integrated.
依舊穩定、富裕、互相補益。
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
你將看到他們逐漸離了美國單幹。
on that one, too.
會對那裡會產生巨大的影響。
it's going to be Africa's decade, finally.
it is absolutely an amazing time
對少數非洲國家而言,
with a lot of urbanization,
同時城市化進程較快,
women really getting into the workforce,
那裡婦女真正地有活可幹,
and also Christianity,
lots of forced migration.
甚至大量強行吞併……
an extreme segregation going on
and the losers across Africa.
we should be upset.
我們會變得失望,
because they say, "Washington's broken,
「華盛頓變差了」
we hate the media."
「我們痛恨媒體」
are taking it on the chin.
chased by the bear,
you need not outrun the bear,
your fellow campers.
讓他們成為被吃掉的就好了。
Let's go New York real estate.
「我們去紐約買房」
to American universities."
and two big bodies of water.
would love to have neighbors like that?
擁有這樣的鄰居?
in the United States.
in Europe than the US.
in the Middle East
and we're complaining bitterly about it.
而且我們對此抱怨不斷。
Because they can't swim here.
因為他們沒有辦法游到這裡。
to have only 10,000 Syrian refugees.
他們只需接收一萬名難民,
the Germans, the Brits. Right?
和英國人也是,不是麼?
你要領導世界的方式,
the global cop anymore,
擔任維持秩序的警察角色、
the architect of global trade,
the cheerleader of global values,
the way we used to,
be so compelling
——那是多麼多令人嚮往。
are going to still say,
this is a good place to be.
這裡仍是個好地方,
is not proving a good option
並沒有一個很好的候選人,
it's going to be like the '90s.
美國會像90年代那樣,
that cheerleader on values.
the architect of global trade.
to bring us back to the '30s.
You don't like it, lump it." Right?
你不高興也得忍耐」,不是麼?
a fundamental truth of the G-Zero,
G0世界的根本真理,
the US is not in decline,
用模範引領世界的準備了麼?
another crisis that forces us to respond.
來迫使我們作出反應。
crisis could do this.
再來一次九一一襲擊事件也可以。
the inequality, the challenges
不平等以及新的挑戰
in the United States,
to compel them to change.
去強迫他們改變。
neither of those things,
我們什麼都不做,
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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