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- Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his ballot at a polling station in Istanbul’s repeat mayoral election. (AP Photo) There is no doubt that the stunning Istanbul local election result is the single biggest setback in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 16-year career...
- On paper, the just-concluded Greek parliamentary elections were a triumph for investors. The leftist, populist Syriza party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been replaced by the far more acceptable (in investors’ eyes) center-right New Democracy (ND) party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The ND w...
- Smoke billows from the Aramco facility in the eastern city of Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters) As the war drums beat and as chaos seemingly rages all around us in the Middle East, surprising wisdom can be found in the words of novelist A. A. Milne, the creator of the peerless Winn...
- A protester hurls a brick at a police station in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district. (Reuters) Much has rightly been made over the past decade about the rise of China to genuine superpower status — the only possible long-term peer competitor to the US. Since Deng Xiaoping in...
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Emmanuel Macron. (Reuters) Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight. Presently there is a lot of ink being spilled — ironically by many of the same political risk commentariat who were so wrong about the Brexit result in t...
- Amy Klobuchar celebrates with her supporters in Concord, New Hampshire, after a strong third-place finish in the state’s primary. (Getty Images) During my Washington glory days, my friends and I often sought refuge in a bar on the top of the splendid Willard Hotel. From its majes...
- I have long been skeptical about the conventional political risk narrative that China is effortlessly rising to superpower status. The country faces myriad intractable economic, demographic, political, and geopolitical problems that will slow, and likely even halt, its march to dominance. Thi...
- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks with journalists at the Supreme Federal Court in Brasilia, May 7, 2020. (Reuters) In his generation-defining classic, “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway has a real-world answer as to how people go bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.”...
- India PM Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington D.C., U.S., June 26, 2017. (Reuters) An African proverb has it that, when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers; meaning that there is almost always unintended collate...
- EU Council President Charles Michel after a virtual meeting with EU heads of state to discuss COVID-19 measures, Brussels, Belgium, March 26, 2020. (Reuters) The great American writer, the expatriate James Baldwin, summed up Europe, and its intellectual relationship with America,...
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