Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer says that 2018 is “by far the greatest geopolitical risk environment that we’ve ever seen” and that this could be the year where the international community witnesses the geopolitical equivalent to the financial crisis. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearing 25,000 and the pace of economic growth in the U.S. climbing back above 3%, the economy has seldom been in better shape since the crisis – a fact that President Trump never misses an opportunity to highlight. However, lingering geopolitical tensions that have been simmering for years finally came to a head in 2017. The result? The U.S. is now mired in what Bremmer calls “a geopolitical recession.” Put simply, this means the decline of U.S. influence in the world will accelerate in 2018, as the US’s mix of soft power and economic and political liberalism faces a crisis of credibility. Meanwhile, some of […]