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Lessons from the Conflict in Ukraine – Geopolitics, Uncertainties and Business (4)

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:35:39 +0000

This article identifies lessons we can learn from the impact of the conflict in Ukraine on businesses, as presented in the first part, to continue enhancing our understanding of the way businesses and the corporate world could usefully anticipate or foresee geopolitical and political risks and uncertainties.

From the way to identify which crises and geopolitical uncertainties can be – sometimes unexpectedly – of concern to a company (Lesson 1) to the best timing for starting the anticipation process (Lesson 2), the need to think outside the ideological box (Lesson 3) and multi-dimensionally (Lesson 4) and to understand “national interest” and its evolution (Lesson 5), the impacts of the war in Ukraine bring us a wealth of understanding and points out many necessary if not crucial improvements that may be endeavoured. These will thus be added to the points previously identified in “Lessons from and for the Brexit – Geopolitics, Uncertainties, and Business (2)”, after a general framework was defined in “Businesses and Geopolitics: Caught up in the Whirlwinds?” (1).

Impacts of the Conflict in Ukraine – Geopolitics, Uncertainties and Business (3)

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:37:41 +0000

With this article and the next one, we use the instability and conflict in Ukraine and the related impacts on businesses to continue enhancing our understanding of the way businesses and the corporate world could usefully anticipate or foresee geopolitical and political risks and uncertainties. RTAS Expertise Highlighted on Italian Television Channel LA7 The Houthis, Bab el-Mandeb, and Maritime Transport The Strange Mystery of Bolivia’s Lithium Reserves Beyond Geopolitics: Understanding the Critical Pressures Reshaping Our World. WATCH OUT – The Iran War, Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis SIGNAL – The Golden Dome, a New Technological Frontier WATCH OUT – Yemen and Saudi Arabia We review two major impacts of the war in Ukraine. First we look at the “surprising” cost of sanctions related to Ukraine …

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The Red (team) Analysis Weekly No91, 14 March 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:20:59 +0000

Horizon Scanning for National Security No91: The Actors and the System: Powerlessness? If we were to estimate the power of the actors by their ability to stabilize the system, they would not fare very well, and this, in itself, is a signal that tensions will most probably continue to rise and escalate in intensity as well as widen in scope. One of the interesting question would thus be: How long can this system withstand the pressure until it breaks?

The Red (team) Analysis Weekly No83, 17 January 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:45:34 +0000

Horizon Scanning for National Security No83: Towards a multiplication of increasingly fragile states? This is what could mean the report on the state of infrastructures in the U.S. (and probably other so called rich countries?). It is a crucial weak signal that could trump all others: imagine weak, increasingly fragile "rich countries" on the backdrop of all the other tensions and threats...