Calculating Political Risk

This powerful new book is the first to ever examine the hard edge of howpolitical risk is calculated and used in decision making. It opens with anoutline of the... » 

This powerful new book is the first to ever examine the hard edge of howpolitical risk is calculated and used in decision making. It opens with anoutline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk a section on thevarious disciplinary understandings of risk the risk society concept and howrisk has come to be so prominent in the context of environmental disaster andterrorism. The book then defines political risk and looks at its manifestationsin the public sector from project to highlevel political risk. It also looksat risk identification versus risk management and the various processes atwork. «