1st Edition
Political Risk Intelligence for Business Operations in Complex Environments
Introduction
Part I. Core Concepts
Chapter 1. Political Risk
Chapter 2 Complex Environments
Chapter 3. Country Operations
Chapter 4. Introduction to Intelligence
Part II. The Baseline Intelligence Exercise
Chapter 5. Baseline Intelligence Exercise Overview
Chapter 6. Context and Focus
Chapter 7. Terrain Analysis
Chapter 8. Stakeholder Analysis
Chapter 9. Political Risk Management Planning
Chapter 10. Scenario Analysis
Chapter 11. Supplementary Intelligence Exercises
Part III. The Practice of Intelligence
Chapter 12. Intelligence Management
Chapter 13. Intelligence Sources
Chapter 14. Intelligence Quality Pitfalls and Remedies
Biography
Robert McKellar is an independent political risk consultant. He holds an MA in political science from Canada and a Master of International Business from France, and studied Arabic in Tunisia for a year. Robert’s political risk career began with periodic freelance assignments in the 1990s. He worked as an international strategic marketing consultant and with established risk advisories before creating his independent practice. Robert has conducted advisory, training and assessment cases for business and NGO clients, and has been involved with security sector reform projects in post-conflict environments. He has fieldwork experience in several regions, but particularly North Africa and the Middle East. Robert is the author of A Short Guide to Political Risk (2010) and the chapter on political risk in The Risk Management Handbook (ed. David Hillson, 2016).
