Why we’re obsessed with China (2 of 2)

by | Jul 22, 2016 | Video

Sam continues his explanation of why China has been so crucial to world growth. (Sorry about the low talking: the day before I had given five hours of back-to-back media interviews to promote the Dutch edition of my book, and managed to lose my voice.)

Two decades of geopolitical analysis

by | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog

Updated April 2019 I’ve been employed to analyze geopolitics and the world economy for about twenty years now, which means, alarmingly, I’ve got a track record. (Most of my publicly-available articles are now posted on this blog.) What did I get wrong, and what did I...

Is China at risk of instability?

by | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog

In a chapter contributed to my recent edited volume on country and political risk, Michel-Henry Bouchet of the Skema Business School makes the case for a new indicator of political risk: capital flight. He writes: “when attempting to understand the complexities of...