Bücher der Reihe Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs

Explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. Nigel Gould-Davies analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, regulate, and tax. He shows how each reflects a transformation of the global political economy that is reordering the relationship between power, wealth, and values.

Describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem alien in the West, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with Moscow. Keir Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think will help the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia.

Tells the story of what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones, and what makes it flow out again. David Lubin follows a trajectory from the emergence of petrodollars, global inflation, and the US Federal Reserve in the 1970s; to Latin America's "lost decade" of the '80s; to the rise of China in the early 2000s.