John C. Hulsman

Dr. John C. Hulsman has been for the past fifteen years the President and Managing Partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a prominent global political risk consulting firm. Literally, the sun never sets on John’s political risk analysis: He is Senior Columnist for City AM, the newspaper of the city of London, while also writing regular columns on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and politics for outlets in Riyadh, Washington, Rome, and New Delhi. His most recent work, the best-selling, "To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk", was published by Princeton University Press in April 2018. To keep up with John’s other work please go to: johnhulsman.substack.com

Over the Indo-Pacific, do not give Xi Jinping more credit than he deserves

One of the basic intellectual errors political risk analysts make is to assume strategic foes are infallible. While everyone who has ever seriously worked in the public policy world is confronted daily by the basic fact that Hamlet…

Why Biden’s magical thinking is already failing in the Middle East

The controversial writer Richard Dawkins put it well: “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” It is hard to think of a better summing up of the new Biden administration’s naïve Wilsonian approach…

A US Realist Foreign Policy for the Indo-Pacific

The inspirational writer William Arthur Ward was surely onto something with his shrewd, nautical definition of what lies behind the philosophy of realism: “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the…

Saving the Republican Party

As Washington insider Jim Papa puts it, “If the Republican Party had its own Mount Rushmore, that mountain would have three faces: Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The goal of every Republican candidate should be to…

Threading the Needle: The Biden Administration’s Daunting Challenge to Revive the Nuclear Arms Deal…

In a plot worthy of an Ian Fleming spy thriller, Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of Iran’s nuclear program, was dramatically gunned down on the outskirts of Tehran. To add to the James Bond aspects of the hit, just days before Iran’s…

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