To Dare More Boldly : The Audacious Story of Political Risk / John C. Hulsman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulsman, John C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

World history.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ten lessons from history on the dos and don'ts of analyzing political riskOur baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a discipline and a lucrative high-stakes industry that guides the strategic decisions of corporations and governments around the world. It assesses why recent predictions have gone so wrong and boldly puts forward ten analytical commandments that can stand the test of time.Written by one of the field's leading practitioners, this incisive book derives these indelible rules of the game from a wide-ranging and entertaining survey of world history. John Hulsman looks at examples as seemingly unconnected as the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Third Crusade, the Italian Renaissance, America's founders, Napoleon, the Battle of Gettysburg, the British Empire, the Kaiser's Germany, the breakup of the Beatles, Charles Manson, and Deng Xiaoping's China. Hulsman makes sense of yesterday's world, and in doing so provides an invaluable conceptual tool kit for navigating today's.To Dare More Boldly creatively explains why political risk analysis is vital for business and political leaders alike, and authoritatively establishes the analytical rules of thumb that practitioners need to do it effectively.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE. 480 BC: Introduction-The First Political Risk Analysts: The Pythia of Delphi

CHAPTER TWO. 31 AD: We Are the Risk; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER THREE. 1192 AD: Gaming Out Lunatics; The Assassins and the Old Man of the Mountain

CHAPTER FOUR. 1503 AD: Gaming Out Chess Players; Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, and Pope Julius II

CHAPTER FIVE. 1776: Everything to Play For; John Adams and Game-Changers

CHAPTER SIX. 1797: Getting to Goldilocks; Napoleon and the Venetian Republic

CHAPTER SEVEN. 1863: The Losing Gambler Syndrome; Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg

CHAPTER EIGHT. 1895: Knowing Your Country's Place in the World; Lord Salisbury Saves the British Empire

CHAPTER NINE. 1898-1912: The Promised Land Fallacy; Von Tirpitz Disastrously Builds a Navy

CHAPTER TEN. 1970: Knowing the Nature of the World You Live In; Or the Trials and Tribulations of George Harrison

CHAPTER ELEVEN. 1978: The Butterfly Effect in Political Risk; Or Deng Xiaoping and the Perils of a Drunken Sea Captain

CHAPTER TWELVE. Conclusion: Back to the Pythia's Lair; Mastering Geopolitical Risk

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-311) and index.

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ISBN:

9781400889440

1400889448

OCLC:

1132689408