Ep. 56 - The Old World Order is Dead. What Comes Next? Ian Bremmer with Anirudh Suri

In this episode of The Great Tech Game Podcast, Anirudh Suri, Author and Host of The Great Tech Game Podcast, sits down with Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. Bremmer has spent his career helping business leaders, policymakers and the public make sense of global power shifts, and in this conversation he makes the case that tech companies, and the people running them, are evolving into a new category of geopolitical actors, one that didn't really exist before.We start with the Starlink decision during the Russia-Ukraine war as a case study in what this kind of power actually looks like in practice. From there, we dig into the structural forces driving today's geopolitics, the competing models of the US, China and Europe, the push for "sovereign AI," and where India stands in the global AI race.We explore:

• How are tech companies and their founders starting to function as sovereigns in the geopolitical space?
• What kind of social backlash could this shift in power trigger, and could it change how governments and tech companies work together?
• What are the structural forces reshaping the balance of power in the world today, but especially between the US, Russia and China?
• Is the "Thucydides Trap" the right historical analogy for the US-China relationship?
• What do the US, Chinese and European models of capitalism reveal about where each system is headed?
• Is "sovereign AI" a viable strategy for middle powers, or should countries think about it differently?
• Where does India genuinely stand in the AI race, and what's the risk most people aren't talking about?

▶️ Watch the full conversation now, and subscribe to The Great Tech Game Podcast!About the guest, Dr. Ian Bremmer: Dr. Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, one of the world's leading global research and advisory firms, and GZERO Media, a digital media company providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He helps business leaders, policymakers and the general public make sense of global events through speeches, commentary, and media formats reaching a wide public audience.About Anirudh Suri, Host of The Great Tech Game Podcast: Anirudh Suri is a non-resident scholar with Carnegie India, where his research and writing focus on technology, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. He is the author of The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations, and host of The Great Tech Game Podcast. He is also the Managing Partner at India Internet Fund, a US and India based technology-focused venture capital fund.