Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZero Media and the author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Portfolio, 2018) and the forthcoming The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World (Simon & Schuster, 2022), offers his analysis of the biggest geopolitical risks likely to play out in 2022.

Covid, climate and Chinese economic policy flow through the list with wide-ranging impact on global supply chains, mounting debt and a disconnect between energy demand and politics. Plus, tension between Russia and western NATO allies through Ukraine, the challenge of regulating big tech, corporations losing the culture wars and how it all affects the upcoming midterm elections in the United States.