Power Personalities And Political Risk

Author : Condoleezza Rice,Amy B. Zegart
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455542369

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Political Risk by Condoleezza Rice,Amy B. Zegart Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it. The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability that a political action could significantly impact a company's business-is affecting more businesses in more ways than ever before. A generation ago, political risk mostly involved a handful of industries dealing with governments in a few frontier markets. Today, political risk stems from a widening array of actors, including Twitter users, local officials, activists, terrorists, hackers, and more. The very institutions and laws that were supposed to reduce business uncertainty and risk are often having the opposite effect. In today's globalized world, there are no "safe" bets. POLITICAL RISK investigates and analyzes this evolving landscape, what businesses can do to navigate it, and what all of us can learn about how to better understand and grapple with these rapidly changing global political dynamics. Drawing on lessons from the successes and failures of companies across multiple industries as well as examples from aircraft carrier operations, NASA missions, and other unusual places, POLITICAL RISK offers a first-of-its-kind framework that can be deployed in any organization, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Organizations that take a serious, systematic approach to political risk management are likely to be surprised less often and recover better. Companies that don't get these basics right are more likely to get blindsided.

Author : Erik Houlleberghs,Alexander Zaslavsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Energy industries
ISBN : 1843740621

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Power, Personalities and Political Risk by Erik Houlleberghs,Alexander Zaslavsky Pdf

Independent industry experts profile the key players in the Industry, so you can gain a clear understanding of the current environment and prepare yourself for future developments.

Author : Hannes Meissner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315308623

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State Capture, Political Risks and International Business by Hannes Meissner Pdf

11 Political risks to international business in Bulgaria -- Part III Company case studies -- 12 Developing a logistics hub in Georgia: The case of Gebrüder Weiss -- 13 Take-off in Baku: Waagner-Biro and the new airport in Baku -- 14 Advanced Siemens medical equipment in modernization of Moldavian healthcare -- Conclusions -- Index.

Author : Michael G. Fry
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 071463428X

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Power, Personalities, and Policies by Michael G. Fry Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays in honour of Britain's leading historian of the international relations of the great powers in the twentieth century. The essays examine aspects of North Atlantic, European and Middle Eastern diplomacy.

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472087878

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Risk-Taking in International Politics by Rose McDermott Pdf

Discusses the way leaders deal with risk in making foreign policy decisions

Author : Robert McKellar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351961639

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A Short Guide to Political Risk by Robert McKellar Pdf

In a competitive and increasingly internationalised business world, many companies rely on the high risk/reward ratio of operating in unstable areas. Those companies willing to engage in emerging or developing countries can often be exposed to a politically volatile environment over which they have little control. Political risk, therefore, is one of the most hazardous challenges that an international business can face. In A Short Guide to Political Risk you will find a business-centric introduction to political risk that will familiarise international managers with the concept and accelerate the learning curve towards proficient and coherent political risk management. Robert McKellar explores: the key political risks that companies have faced in the recent past, and current trends in the evolution of the political risk landscape; the concept of political risk and its constituent elements; models and approaches for assessing political risk; the principal options for managing political risk, and suggestions for organisational structures to ensure a coherent and consistent approach; as well as wider issues that a company needs to consider in developing its own attitude and philosophy on political risk. A Short Guide to Political Risk is an essential introductory guide for risk managers and for all senior managers concerned with their organisation's global performance and reputation.

Author : Charlotte H. Brink
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351918985

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Measuring Political Risk by Charlotte H. Brink Pdf

Offering a fresh, transparent approach encompassing new material, this invigorating volume measures political risk - for instance the risk that foreign investment might face in any country. It also demonstrates how progress or regress made in good governance initiatives as conditionalities to aid can be assessed. Governments can monitor their own policy environment(s), and take remedial action if necessary. The methodology allows for measurement of previously un-quantified 'soft' factors that add to the risks foreign investors might face, demonstrating why these factors are of importance to both risk assertive and risk averse investors. Features include: - 103 contextualized, measurable risk factors and their 411 risk factor indicators. - Guidelines to using these factors in order to perform generic macro analyses, or micro, client/project/industry-specific analyses. - Explanation of the methodology with which to comprehensively measure the probability of risk occurring in any macro or micro investment climate.

Author : Thomas Krayenbuehl
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781855738812

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Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk by Thomas Krayenbuehl Pdf

The international financial system has come under strain several times in recent years, and analysis has shown that most crises originated from the risks built into cross-border exposures.Assessment and monitoring of cross-border exposures and country risk are essential activities for international lending agencies such as government bodies, banks, multinational corporations and other investors. Inadequate risk management could have a destabilising effect on both lender and borrower and could result in a major international financial crisis.This completely revised edition of Thomas E Krayenbuehl's classic handbook clearly shows how the various players can quantify and manage the complex factors involved in order to minimise the risk and avoid potentially catastrophic consequences. It provides both a rigorous analysis of the current situation and a guide to meeting the challenges of the future.Just some of the things you'll discover...How to succeed in cross-border lending and investment through good assessment, monitoring and hedging of country riskHow the Tequila and Asian crises came about, and the lessons learnedThe likelihood of future crises and the potential causesThe latest problems to beset the international financial systemThe recent developments in cross-border financingWhy the problem of contagion occurs between seemingly unrelated marketsThe enormous need for global capital to bring about sustainable economic development in the developing world, and the role of the major players in fulfilling itThe numerous factors that constitute and influence a specific country riskThe responsibilities of all the parties involved, from the IMF and the World Bank to the industrialised and developing nations, the regulators and the rating agenciesHow this study helps you: This lucid and authoritative handbook will help you to:Understand the problems facing the international financial systemIdentify and assess new investment opportunitiesOptimise risk composition of cross-border lending or investmentMake sound decisions, minimise risk and achieve better outcomes The definitive study of this important topic – its purpose, practice and implications

Author : Wang Liming,Shi Jiayou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000607840

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Chinese Law of Personality Rights I by Wang Liming,Shi Jiayou Pdf

This volume is a collection of up-to-date, authoritative essays on China’s Law of Personality Rights, its impact in practice and its legal background. The Law of Personality Rights was enacted in China in May 2020, the first time that the Law has been legislated as an independent part of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, marking an unprecedented step in protecting the personality rights of citizens. As the first volume of a two-volume set that elucidates the theory, practice and codification experience of the Law in China, the book examines the basis for the Law as a standalone part of the Civil Code, its overall framework and the delimitation and formation of the Law. In terms of practical aspects, the contributors delve into institutional arrangements, the relationship between human rights and personality rights, and the relationship with laws on tort liability, as well as those pertaining to marriage and the family. The book will be an essential reference to scholars and students studying civil law, continental law, Chinese law and the legal protection of personality rights.

Author : Kurt J. Engemann,Cathryn F. Lavery,Jeanne M. Sheehan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110731422

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Socio-Political Risk Management by Kurt J. Engemann,Cathryn F. Lavery,Jeanne M. Sheehan Pdf

Managing risk necessitates an understanding of both how to avoid detrimental outcomes and to reap beneficial results. Organizations are regularly confronted with complex decisions involving risk and the impending consequences of the negative impact of its manifestation. However, the positive aspects of embracing risk should also be sufficiently evaluated to obtain a full assessment of opportunities. Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity covers a range of viewpoints and issues which can be applied to various organizational agency structures. These perspectives examine how social and political risk can impact an agency, and what recommendations are made to adapt, mitigate, and strengthen the organization against political risk. Accessibility to personnel and agencies via social media, the internet and public exposure compounded with political and social societal shifts have led many agencies in a constant spin to assuage and sustain viability and relevance publicly. Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity serves the readers by raising awareness and the necessity to control social and political risks in their organizations. This volume explores pathways for those in differing organizational structures to find common threads pertaining to social and political risks. An important goal of the work is also to develop a framework for managing and exploiting risk that can be applied at the organizational level.

Author : Catherine Althaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317973157

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Calculating Political Risk by Catherine Althaus Pdf

Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case studies to offer interdisciplinary, practical and nuanced insight. This book provides new perspectives and more precise language for making sense of a critical dimension of politics, policy-making and public management. Evert Lindquist, Director and Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, Canada This powerful new book is the first ever examination of the hard edge of how political risk - something faced by all political actors innumerable times every day - is calculated and used in decision-making. It opens with an outline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk, the various disciplinary understandings of risk, the risk society concept, and how risk has come to be so prominent in the context of environmental disaster and terrorism. The book then defines political risk and looks at its manifestations in the public sector, from project to high-level political risk. It also looks at risk identification versus risk management and compares the concept of political risk with the private sector practice of risk management. Unique research findings from interviews with over 100 risk practitioners and politicians provide a detailed look at how political actors calculate political risk. Case study-based chapters look in-depth at neat and discrete examples: risk calculation in state development plans in Australia; political risk identification and management in the UK during the mad cow crisis; and US government risk calculation in the post-September 11 context. The final chapters draw together the experiences and lessons learned from the case studies and practitioner insights to formulate a better understanding of what political risk is and what its calculation means in political practice. The author shows how political risk calculation provides a fresh perspective on policy analysis and identifies how political risk is relevant to a broader understanding of politics and political science, as well as policy formulation and implementation on the ground.

Author : John J. Carter
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773477543

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Covert Operations as a Tool of Presidential Foreign Policy in American History from 1800 to 1920 by John J. Carter Pdf

Author : Lisa VeneKlasen,Valerie Miller
Publisher : Practical Action Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000115651253

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A New Weave of Power, People and Politics by Lisa VeneKlasen,Valerie Miller Pdf

This book provides an approach for promoting citizen participation; separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, reconnecting them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment; delving into questions of citizenship, constituency-building, social change, gender, and accountability.

Author : Dacher Keltner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780698195592

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The Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner Pdf

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world. Power is ubiquitous—but totally misunderstood. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Dr. Dacher Keltner presents the very idea of power in a whole new light, demonstrating not just how it is a force for good in the world, but how—via compassion and selflessness—it is attainable for each and every one of us. It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what we all too often forget, and it is the crux of the power paradox: by misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place we set ourselves up to fall from power. We abuse and lose our power, at work, in our family life, with our friends, because we've never understood it correctly—until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and in and of itself a good thing. Dr. Keltner lays out exactly—in twenty original "Power Principles"—how to retain power; why power can be a demonstrably good thing; when we are likely to abuse power; and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness.

Author : Allan Gerson,Nat Colletta
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480742

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Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security by Allan Gerson,Nat Colletta Pdf

Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security pinpoints the weaknesses in the numerous peacekeeping missions of recent decades, as well as the blind spots in the thinking that guided them. Even more significantly, they clearly demonstrate the ways in which well-meaning stabilization and reconstruction programs fail to accommodate the economic and social imperatives of war-torn societies. But this visionary work is not merely an indictment of First World myopia in the face of Third World devastation. The authors offer cogent, well-thought-out recommendations, firmly grounded in current reality, with a powerful determination to avoid the repetition of past mistakes. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.