Topics discussed in the report include:

• Support for a “strong leader” as opposed to checks and balances has increased in many countries.
• The share of households with flat or falling market incomes during the 2005-14 period has been around 65% in advanced economies, and 97% in Italy. In the preceding decade, it had been negligible.
• The Eurasia Group’s top ten risks for 2017:
  1. Independent America
  2. China overreacts
  3. A weaker Merkel
  4. No reform
  5. Technology and the Middle East
  6. Central banks get political
  7. The White House vs. Silicon Valley
  8. Turkey
  9. North Korea
  10. South Africa
• More than 60 percent of Americans want to keep or increase US commitments to NATO.
• “Europe” could save 30% of its defense investments by cooperating more closely.
• “Europe” operates many more weapon systems than the US.
• In 2016, 94%, 73%, and 20% of US-led, Turkish, and Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted Daesh/ISIS.
• China and Russia have strongly increased the number of their cultural institutes abroad.
• Wikileaks has strongly gained support among Republican voters.
• Most attacks on health care infrastructure are deliberate.