Political Risk/Country Risk


>Books on the field of political risk/country risk analysis and management

Global Risk Assessments Series

This is a series -- five volumes so far -- of edited volumes featuring essays on political risk. The quality varies. Some essays are well-written, some not; some are done by leading practitioners, others not. That said, you'll find some...

Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis, The, 3rd Edition

Lew Howell is a Thunderbird prof with a long history in the political risk business, and it shows with this third edition (2001) of his book. In essence it's a compilation of sample reports and descriptions of methodology from leading...

IRMI's Political Risk Insurance Guide

If you're interested in political risk insurance -- purchasing it, or working in the industry -- this is your book. It's a readable guide to the various covers available, the underwriting markets, the underwriting process, and includes a detailed review...

International Political Risk Management

VOLUME I Not to be confused with Managing International Political Risk, also edited by Moran. (Hard to think up new titles, it seems.) This slick edited volume is put out by MIGA, the World Bank's political risk underwriter, so of...

Managing International Political Risk

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Like International Political Risk Management, it's an edited volume by Ted Moran. But with a broader focus than just insurance. This has a good collection of articles on political risk from well-qualified writers. There's the venerable Louis T. Wells and...

Managing the International Business Environment

A good book, but out of date -- published in 1991. The idea's a sound one. Get a bunch of case studies together on all aspects of political risk: expropriation, instability, international negotiations, legal disputes, scenarios, etc. Featuring Honeywell, Occidental,...

Multinational Risk Assessment and Management

It's a good niche: a political risk textbook for business school students. So, for instance, the section on project economics (risk analysis for an international investment) shows how to work political risk into net present value equations. The book is...

Nature, Estimation, and Management of Political Risk, The

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Who knows where these two authors -- Janice Monti-Belkaoui and Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui -- came from. Prior to this book we'd never heard of them. That said, it's a pretty good book. In fact, probably the most recent political risk book,...

Political Risk Analysis Around the North Atlantic

This is an odd book, but an interesting one. Written by a Canadian government official, it's a bit old (1992), but covers an important topic: political risk assessment practices of multinational firms. (The last book on that subject, by Stephen...

Political Risk Assessment

This is a companion volume to the Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis, though it stands alone. Actually, it's the better buy. Lew Howell edits an eclectic collection of essays on political risk, mostly by people trying to tout...

Political Risk in the International Oil and Gas Industry

Good markets tend to grow only where there is stability; but oil flows from wherever God put it. That, in a nutshell, is the curse of the oil and gas industry, which has a history of building large, expensive, immobile...

Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law

Exactly what it sounds like -- a law-school text on political risk. It's a touch out of date, 1996, but still the definitive (er, only) work on the subject. How to structure contracts to minimize political risk, the legalese of...