Summary of Ian Bremmer's The Power of Crisis

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#1 To survive our impending crises, we must avoid disaster in two relationships: the one we have with one another, and the one between the US and China.

#2 The United States is a nation of contradictions. While the country led the world in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, it also set records for speed of production and distribution of game-changing vaccines.

#3 Today, there is almost no common ground between the most liberal Republicans and the most conservative Democrats, and this has led to less compromise in Congress.

#4 There are many sources of division in the American community. The widening income gap between the rich and the poor is one of them. The top 1 percent of Americans now own more than 70 percent of the country’s wealth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547100

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

To survive our impending crises, we must avoid disaster in two relationships: the one we have with one another, and the one between the US and China.

#2

The United States is a nation of contradictions. While the country led the world in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, it also set records for speed of production and distribution of game-changing vaccines.

#3

Today, there is almost no common ground between the most liberal Republicans and the most conservative Democrats, and this has led to less compromise in Congress.

#4

There are many sources of division in the American community. The widening income gap between the rich and the poor is one of them. The top 1 percent of Americans now own more than 70 percent of the country’s wealth.

#5

The American capitalist culture reveres the animal spirits unleashed by market forces and the entrepreneur, and many politicians are dependent on the goodwill of people and organizations willing to bankroll their careers.

#6

Social media has changed the way Americans receive their news, and has created a business model based