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Welcome to the rest of his policy is leading with me,

Alec, and with me, Rory Stewart.

And we have with us here a friend of mine called Ian Bremmer.

Ian is very famous in the US.

Maybe not necessarily everybody in Europe knows about him,

but I think many people will,

as probably the foremost independent analyst of geopolitical risk.

And to some extent has kind of created the field.

He's become the go-to person for companies,

for individuals, for governments on defining this very, very strange world. And we're going

to get into it a bit, both what he thinks is happening in the world. We're recording this just

after the election, Donald Trump,

but also maybe a little bit reflecting on this extraordinary industry that he's been right at the

heart of creating, which is trying to make sense of almost 200 countries in that enormous

brain of his. So, Ian, thank you very much for joining us. That's good to be with both of you. Thanks.

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