Our baffling new multipolar globe grows a lot more complex, desperately calling for new means of thinking, particularly if it involves political risk. To Dare Even more Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a discipline and a profitable high-stakes market that manuals the strategic decisions of corporations and governments all over the world. It assesses why recent predictions have gone so incorrect and boldly puts forward ten analytical commandments that can stand the test of time.

Written by one of the field’s leading practitioners, this incisive book derives these indelible tips of the overall game from a wide-ranging and amusing study of world history. John Hulsman talks about examples as seemingly unconnected as the ancient Greeks and Romans, the 3rd Crusade, the Italian Renaissance, America’s founders, Napoleon, the Battle of Gettysburg, the British Empire, the Kaiser’s Germany, the separation from the Beatles, Charles Manson, and Deng Xiaoping’s China. Hulsman is practical of yesterday’s world, and in doing this provides an important conceptual tool kit for navigating today’s.