On Wednesday 1 November 2006 Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group, will launch his new book entitled The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, published by Simon & Schuster. This event will take place from 1.30-2.30 pm.
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. Dr Bremmer received his PhD in political science from Stanford University and has held research and faculty positions at Columbia University (where he presently teaches), the EastWest Institute, the Hoover Institution, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the World Policy Institute, where he has served as Senior Fellow since 1997. An expert on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk and the author of five books on these subjects, ‘The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall’ is his most recent work.
He has also published over 200 articles and essays in The Harvard Business Review, Survival, The New Republic, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The International Herald Tribune and the webzine Slate, contributing editor at The National Interest, and a political commentator on CNN, FoxNews and CNBC. He lives in New York.
The J curve is a tool designed to help us understand how the world's political decision-makers make choices - and why nations rise and fall. Some states remain stable only because their governments isolate their citizens, both from the outside world and from one another. Others states are stable because their political, economic, and social institutions are fueled by globalization and thrive on change. The J curve reveals that for a nation that is "stable because it is closed" to become "stable because it is open," it must survive a period of dangerous instability. In an age of global terrorism, weapons proliferation, religious conflict, and other transnational threats, these countries' transitions toward openness are everyone's business.
This meeting will take place at the IISS, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend this book launch, please contact Caitlin Brannan on brannan@iiss.org or phone +44 (0)20 7395 9119 
