costs, and political decisions to cut spending in the 2011 debt deal and raise taxes in the 2012 tax deal," said Sean West, U.S. policy director at the Eurasia Group. But the deficit reduction put in place so far won't do much to address the country's long-term fiscal situation, which is where the real debt probl

at the Brookings Institution. "A confrontation over Ukraine could make such cooperation on Iran more difficult." Cliff Kupchan, an Iran expert at the Eurasia Group, said that without a nuclear deal, "the Crimean invasion makes it more likely that Russia would lead an effort to let Iran out of the penalty box."

he era of free-market triumphalism has come to a juddering halt... State capitalism increasingly looks like the coming trend." Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group, a global consultancy, and now known for being the town-crier of "the end of the free market," explains the key logic behind state capitalism this