The G20 Book Report

During the late 1970s, The world’ leading powers were deep in a crisis beyond their control. The price of oil went through the roof since the OPEC imposed an embargo. In the United States, unemployment was increasing. In Japan, the economy was going down for the first time since World War II. Communism was creeping through Greece and Spain. In a desperate attempt, leaders of six large democracies—United States, Britain, Italy, France, Germany—arranged a meeting, to discuss and resolve the global problems. They called themselves the Group of Six, also known as the G6. By the late 1990s it became the G8, with the addition of Russian and Canada. Afterwards it became the G20, with the addition of India, China, and other rising powers. But this …show more content…
It is what happens when the G20 doesn 't work and G7 is history. Bremmer wrote “for the first time in seven decades, we live in a world without global leadership.” This is not a book that will get your hopes up, which means that it is disturbing precisely because it’s probable. There are some probable problems Bremmer states in the book, for Example: an influenza epidemic destroys the globe because of poor coordination and secrecy among the nations; North Korea loses it, setting off a fight over who ill safeguard the nuclear program and care for refugees; terrorists bring down aircrafts because countries no longer agree on uniform standards for checking passengers and cargo; wars rage over the low supply of water and food. Bremer calls these problems without borders. The world described in the book also explains a competition within nations to control the cyberspace, which becomes a widely used weapon in the battle for natural resources and market share. It’s a world in which some autoritarian rising players will find new ways to establish control over the flow of ideas, information , people, good, services, and money. Also he adds the problem of climate change, the risk of food price shocks, threats to public health and other problems that flow easily across borders, during a time where the world …show more content…
The most important choice a government can make, is making potential commercial and security partners. According to Bremmer, among the most fortunate are the so called “pivot states.” Pivot states are those that are able to build profitable relationships with multiple partners becoming absolutely dependent on any one of them. Then there are “rogues with powerful friends,”those are the nations the openly challenge international rules with cover from other governments. In a world where new economically conscious established nations will have to rely more often to political and economic, instead a military pressure to get their way, these ties will the most important in G-zero