Ross Hendin, CFP Contributor and Principal of Hendin Consultants, provides below another chapter to the Ignalina nuclear power plant case study. Here, Ross discusses a major foreign policy concern with regard to energy security in both Lithuania and Belarus- the threat of Russia: The Jamestown Foundation today published an article by David Marples, detailing the political [...]

Collectively, the continent of Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is more than that of India. The African continent, in population, is more or less the same size. – Vijay Mahajan, former dean of the Indian School of Business and author of ‘Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More than You Think’

The New York Times below reports on a coup in the auto industry and a poignant moment for China; Porsche unveiled its entry into the luxury sedan market in China on Sunday night, at the eve of the Shanghai auto show, marking the first time that Porsche has entered a new market segment at an [...]

Ross Hendin, CFP contributer and Principal of Hendin Consultants, has provided below a new chapter to the case of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, involving where and how Russia can be Russia and step in: ITAR-TASS is reporting that the Russian State-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom, will build a new nuclear reactor in the Baltics [...]

Indians turned out in steady numbers today to pick a new federal government in a month-long general election. The elections will run until next month in several stages of scattered polling. At that point, elections officials will count the vote electronically in a single day — on May 16, three days after the last round [...]

A great deal of attention on this blog goes toward the investment opporunities found in emerging markets. This window on how these developing nations are or are not improving economically serves useful when we later discuss which political events have made them so.  Below is an article from USA Today’s John Waggoner that speaks contrary to [...]

A power shift from New York to Washington, from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, from Shanghai to Beijing. The fall of globalization and the rise of state capitalism. President Obama shifting global opinion of the US back out of the red, but its a shift that is blown far out of proportion.  These were but a [...]

With a background in mining exploration, Corporate Foreign Policy contributor David Harris discusses government intervention in commodity markets to maintain economic competitiveness and speaks out on the need for a privatized mining sector to have an opportunity to thrive in a fair and healthy environment: As the world’s developing nations continue to industrialize, global consumption of [...]

Napoleon once stated that one should be wary of China,” for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. One can not argue the fact that China is now viewed in the eyes of American media, who in some circles have been have noted to have a more introverted view of political events, as a [...]

Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group and author of The J-Curve and his latest book, The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, recently participated in an online discussion with the Washington Post to discuss how politics is increasingly driving the world economy and having direct implications for investors and multinational corporations. His most recent [...]