Political Risk Outlook

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Political Risk Outlook 2024

  • Faultlines: The political risk 'signals' to watch in 2025
  • Conflict zones grow by two thirds globally since 2021, covering 6 million km²
  • Cost of doing business at 10-year high as geopolitics takes toll on global trade
  • Geopolitical risk exposure of major stock markets hits new peak
  • Protectionism spiking as critical minerals race intensifies

Political Risk Outlook 2022

  • Executive summary
  • Cost of living crisis inflames civil unrest risks in emerging markets
  • Latin America hosts over 60% of world’s most crime-stricken cities
  • Anatomy of a coup
  • Beyond Russia: The Sovereign ESG elephants in the room

Political Risk Outlook 2021

  • Executive summary: The age of flux and flex
  • Resource nationalism surges in 2020, Covid-19 worsens outlook
  • 2020’s sting in the tail: Political instability will rise in 88 countries
  • China’s resource security redrawing geopolitical map
  • Energy transition a political risk nightmare for least competitive oil producers

Political Risk Outlook 2020

  • Executive summary
  • 47 countries witness surge in civil unrest – trend to continue in 2020
  • US drive for energy independence fuels Persian Gulf insecurity
  • Corporate sector becomes new front line of US-China rivalry
  • Latin America – China to take trade war to US backyard
  • Minerals for mercenaries – Russia prioritises profits over long-term influence in Africa
  • Countries to watch