GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
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GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
The United States will no longer play global policeman, and no one else wants the job. This is not a G-7 or a G-20 world. Welcome to the GZERO, a world made volatile by an intensifying international battle for power and influence. Every week on this podcast, Ian Bremmer will interview the world lead...
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How life sciences investment drives economic growth
Investing in health and science research isn’t just about curing diseases. It has huge impacts across society, from creating jobs to driving economic...
Could Israel's Gaza gamble be paying off?
Militarily, Israel is dominant. Diplomatically, it’s more isolated than ever.
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his four...
How the circular economy empowers small businesses
Imagine an economy where products are designed to be reused, repaired, and regenerated instead of ending up as waste. That’s the circular economy, a m...
Ukraine's high-tech war of attrition, with Christopher Miller
The war in Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, with Russia sending bigger, more powerful drone attacks across the border nearly every day. Gone...
A world in chaos and a UN in crisis with Secretary-General Guterres
Wars are raging, tensions are rising, and trust in global institutions is collapsing. From Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan, the world is on fire—and the one...
Renewable energy and the case for climate optimism with Bill McKibben
Is the clean energy revolution finally here? Over the past few years, the world has experienced a sudden and overwhelming surge in renewable energy in...
How AI will revolutionize medicine with Siddhartha Mukherjee
On the latest episode of the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer talks with world-renowned cancer researcher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha...
Rethinking the refugee crisis and global aid system, with David Miliband
The number of people forced to flee their homes because of war, persecution, humanitarian disaster or political collapse topped 123 million people in...
Pakistan needs to stand up to India, says former Foreign Minister Hina Khar
After nearly eight decades of on-again-off-again conflict, India and Pakistan neared the brink of all-out war last spring. The intense, four-day confl...
Trump vs higher education, with Harvard Law's Noah Feldman
From lawsuits and executive orders to funding cuts tied to antisemitism claims, the Trump White House is targeting institutions like Harvard and Colum...
The new global trade wars, with Fareed Zakaria
President Trump’s policies swiftly rewriting the rules of global trade. As the United States imposes tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, do we ri...
Could the future of industry lie among the stars?
Creating artificial human retinas in zero gravity. Mining rare minerals on the moon. There seems to be no limit to what could be possible if we contin...
The two trillion dollar opportunity
You might not know it, but you interact with space technology countless times on a daily basis. In fact, the space economy has become so ubiquitous th...
Spy games and loyalty tests with Senator Mark Warner
It’s been a banner stretch for President Trump: a major strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, a sprawling tax-and-spending bill pushed through Congress, and...
A new era of space defense
For many of us, the idea of a space-based arm of the military calls to mind images from science fiction. But the real-life world of space defense has...
The return of the nuclear threat, with Admiral James Stavridis
The world is heading toward a new nuclear arms race—one that’s more chaotic and dangerous than the last. The Cold War built rules of deterrence for a...
The new Sputnik moment
Over the last decade, the world of space exploration and innovation has exploded. On this episode of Next Giant Leap, season 2 hosts Mike Greenley, CE...
Season 2 of Next Giant Leap is coming!
Welcome back to Next Giant Leap! This new podcast series is brought to you by GZERO Media and the Canadian space company MDA Space.
Hosted by MD...
What's next for Iran, with the New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman
Ian Bremmer sits down with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to dissect what may go down as the most consequential month in the Middle East in...
Why life sciences are critical to national security
What if the next virus isn’t natural, but deliberately engineered and used as a weapon? As geopolitical tensions rise and biological threats become mo...
Where middle class growth and small business meet
Small businesses are more than just corner shops and local services. They’re a driving force of economic growth, making up 90% of all businesses globa...
Trump's showdown with the courts with Yale Law School's Emily Bazelon
President Trump has never been shy about his revolutionary ambitions. In his second term, he’s moved aggressively to consolidate power within the exec...
Where Trump-Musk bromance goes from here, with Semafor’s Ben Smith
It was an extraordinary public fight between two billionaires—President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful man, and Elon Musk, the world’s riches...
Taiwan's strategy for countering a Chinese invasion, with Bonny Lin of CSIS
On this week’s GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Bonny Lin, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and Internat...
Pope Leo XIV's historic opportunity, with Father James Martin
Ian Bremmer sits down with Jesuit priest and bestselling author Father James Martin to discuss the unprecedented election of Pope Leo XIV—the first-ev...
OpenAI whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo on superintelligence and existential risk of AI
How much could our relationship with technology change by 2027? In the last few years, new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek hav...
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen on why he went to El Salvador and what's next
In the latest episode of the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen to unpack what he calls a constitutio...
Free speech in Trump's America with New York Times journalist Jeremy Peters and conservative scholar Ilya Shapiro
Free speech has become one of the most contentious issues in American politics, but what does it actually mean today? On the GZERO World podcast, Ian...
Revisiting the Vietnam War 50 years later, with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and author Mai Elliott
It’s been 50 years since the fall of Saigon, but the impact of the Vietnam War still reverberates across generations and continents. On the GZERO Worl...
Pushing Putin for a ceasefire: Dmytro Kuleba on Ukraine's future and Russia's goals
What will it take to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? President Trump is pushing hard for a ceasefire deal, but is Vladimir Putin actually interested...
International markets and global energy transitions
What does global energy transition look like in a time of major geopolitical change, including rebalancing of trade? In this special episode of "Energ...
Larry Summers has a few thoughts about Trump's trade war
For a special edition of the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to get his economic assessment of...
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado says Maduro's days are numbered
On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer is joined by the most prominent opposition leader in Venezuela, María Corina Machado. Machado has a long polit...
Inside Elon Musk and DOGE's "revolutionary" push to reshape Washington, with WIRED's Katie Drummond
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, made his fortune-breaking industries—space, cars, social media—and is now trying to break the government… in the n...
The economic waves of Trump 2.0: Insights from The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes
On the GZERO World Podcast with Ian Bremmer, we ask The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes: Did Wall Street get President Trump wrong?
Will America's global retreat open new doors for Beijing? Insights from Bill Bishop
In seven short weeks, the Trump administration has completely reshaped US foreign policy and upended trade alliances. Will China benefit from US retre...
A Baltic warning: What Ukraine war means for Europe—and the Russian perspective
On the GZERO World Podcast, we're bringing you two starkly different views on Ukraine's future and European security. First, Ian Bremmer speaks with L...
Ukraine and European security in the Trump era: Insights from Sen. Elissa Slotkin
Three years into the invasion of Ukraine, and amid the Trump administration’s rapid shift in US-Russia relations, can European and NATO allies continu...
Palestinian UN Ambassador on Trump's radical Gaza plan and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire
On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour to discuss the future of Gaza, Trump’s radical p...
How Trump is remaking US public health, with NY Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli
In President Trump’s short time in office, he’s already made sweeping changes to US public health policy—from RFK Jr.’s nomination to lead the health...