Tectonic Politics

Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation

Nigel Gould-Davies

• Éditeur: Brookings Inst. Press/Chatham House
• Année: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780815737148
• Sujet: Politics & International Relations
• Sous-sujet: Geopolitics

Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise. But traditional methods of managing political risk are no longer legitimate or effective.

In Tectonic Politics, Nigel Gould-Davies explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. He analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, regulate, and tax. He shows how each of these forms reflects a deeper transformation of the global political economy that is reordering the relationship between power, wealth, and values. In a world where everything is political, the craft of engagement is as important as the science of production and the art of the deal. The successful company must integrate that craft—the engager's way of seeing and doing—into strategy and culture.

Drawing on a career in academia, business, and diplomacy, Gould-Davies provides corporate leaders, scholars, and engaged citizens with a groundbreaking study of the fastest-rising political risk today. "As tectonic plates shape the earth," he writes, "so tectonic politics forges its governance."

Index

Age of Engagement, 131, 134–138

AIDS/HIV, 83, 89

Algorithmists, 142

Analytical empathy, 119, 120

Andreesen, Marc, 100

Anti-Bribery Convention (1997), 82

Anticipatory shaping, 122, 123

Apple Inc., 49, 84

Artificial intelligence (AI), 141, 142

Asset expropriation, 52, 61, 66–68

Asset nationalization, 11, 52, 65–66, 68, 134

Authoritarian regimes: expropriation of assets in, 66–68; political engineers in, 125; resurgence of, 107, 140, 142; security relationships with, 135; tolerance for, 56

Autonomous vehicles, 102–03

Baby boomers, 104–06

Baldwin, Richard, 73

Banking industry, 26–27

Beck, Ulrich, 101–03

Behavioral economics, 39

Bernays, Edward, 126

Berne Union, 21

Berra, Yogi, 32, 38

Bezos, Jeff, 23–24

Big data, 22, 32, 33, 40, 99, 141–142

Black swan events, 25, 59

Blake, William, 43–44, 101

Blind production, 35, 47

“Bottom of the pyramid” strategy, 85, 86

Boulton, Matthew, 42

Boycotts, 87–89

BP, 85, 111–112

Bremmer, Ian, 8

Bretton Woods system, 71

Brexit referendum (2016), 7, 24, 58

Bribery Act of 2010 (UK), 82

Browne, John, 112

Buchanan, James, 45

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 24, 117

Byler, Edna, 80

Cantillon, Richard, 39

Capitalism. See Market capitalism

Carter, Jimmy, 125, 126

Carville, James, 64

China: in digital economy, 99, 140; foreign policy of, 55–56; international lending by, 16; modernization of, 55, 57

Choice: in digital economy, 142–143; economic, 13–14, 30, 45, 48, 136; individual, 13–14, 44, 48, 105, 136; political, 13–14, 48, 62, 67, 70, 136. See also Collective choice

Chwieroth, Jeffrey, 64

Civil war, 57–59, 131

Climate change, 81, 85, 103

Codes of conduct, 91

Cold War, 54...