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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Hulsman, John C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 2 tables.

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...

Table of 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