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 [...]

CFP Contributor David Harris provides a perspective on US-Latin American relations, following the Summit of the Americas: It may be good news that US-Latin American relations look to be improving but the restoration of ambassadors is only the first of many steps required for true reconciliation.  The newfound solidarity of Latin American nations and the ALBA [...]

Ross Hendin is Principal of Hendin Consultants and Senior Advisor to the Canadian office of a leading multi-national PR firm. With strategic communication experience in over 20 countries around the world, Ross specializes in high-stakes communication and marketing strategies in a number of industries, including energy. Ross will be regularly contributing to Corporate Foreign Policy.com, here pointing out [...]

It’s hard not to comment on the recent piracy of international freighters, especially given the dramatic, 24-esque unfolding of events that occurred but a few days ago. With the recent news of two more freighters seized in but one day by Somalian pirates comes a timely blog post from Foreign Policy.com, documenting a letter Senator [...]

  It is one of the biggest political initiatives since U.S. President Barack Obama took office. Today, the President lifted all restrictions on the ability of individuals to visit relatives in Cuba, as well as to send them remittances. He is also apparently going to allow telecommunications companies to provide cell and television service to people on the [...]

  David Gardner has written a thought-provoking opinion editorial in Saturday’s Financial Times , on the attempt from the Arab communities to marry Islam and democracy. David rightfully notes this challenge as the is the single biggest facing a region mired in despotism and failure, where western collusion with local strongmen has created an Arab Exception – [...]

Hopes were high. Promises were made. There were even small clamors of joy found in the most dilapidated of homes. From the moment Morgan Tsvangirai was inaugurated as Zimbabwean prime minister, February 11, 2009, Zimbabwe has witnessed nothing but controversy and corruption, power struggle instead of power shared. President Robert Mugabe maintained the post he had [...]

Emerging stocks rose on Thursday towards new year highs set earlier in the week fuelled mainly by Asian optimism, but Central and Eastern European currencies once again underperformed. Political unrest in Moldova had little effect on markets, but investors watched for wider impact. Moldova’s Communist president, Vladimir Voronin, today accused neighboring Romania yesterday of trying to overthrow [...]

Last evening, the keynote speech of Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, CEO of Sogato Strategies Group at the Business and Investment Forum for Nigerian Governors was published, detailing Dr. Moghalu’s strategic approaches to foreign investment in Nigeria. Dr. Moghalu has some straightforward yet insightful applications for how foreign direct investment can be exponentially more beneficial to Nigeria [...]

The year 1995 was very tragic for Nigeria: after years of starvation and exploitation, the ethnic minority in Ogoniland, an area rich in oil and gas, began mounting a peaceful civil society movement to demand a greater share of the oil wealth to fund infrastructure in their impoverished communities. Led by the political activist Ken [...]