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the last 20 years. This is revealed by the riskiest years we had seen,"
Eurasia Group, a company insists Eurasia.
specializing in identifying global risks,
According to the report, there is no
which presented a report on the ten
leadership. "The US, under the
most serious threats for the coming
command of Donald Trump, is not
months.
going to rescue anyone from the
Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia, crisis, the European Union is focused
says in the presentation of the on its own crises and China is
document that 2018 arrives full of emerging, but it has no leadership."
political challenges: liberal These are the 10 biggest risks the
democracies have less legitimacy world will face.
than at any time since World War II
Danger of an accident
and most problems seem to have no
The likelihood of a major geopolitical
solution. “If we had to choose a year
crisis (North Korea, terrorism, cyber
for a big unexpected crisis, we could
attacks) increases. An error in
have been placing it within 20 years”.,
calculation or judgment could trigger
we would say it's 2018," says
an international conflict of capital
Bremmer.
proportions, since there is no longer a
guarantor of global security and
proliferation of non-state actors with
destabilizing capacity. According to
Eurasia, a cyberattack or missile tests
from North Korea that reach
Why the pessimism? The progressive
decline of US influence in the world
and geopolitical pressure will set the
course for this year. "2018 is one of