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

Political risk assessment and the pandemic’s challenge

Given the panic enveloping the globe, let us logically think through the political risk ramifications of the coronavirus. The basic, Platonic question that first needs decisively answering is this: Is the coronavirus the political risk…

Obama, the domestic trap and the foreign policy gamble

With the notable exceptions of Woodrow Wilson’s second term and Franklin Roosevelt’s third and fourth, all modern American presidents have been elected primarily to deal with domestic problems. The adage attributed to former House Speaker…

G8: time for a rethink

To misquote Douglas MacArthur, ‘Old institutions don’t die, they just fade away.’ Sadly in international relations most organizations that have outlived their usefulness continue to solider on, saved only by bureaucratic inertia and the…

The thwarted greatness of Barack Obama in foreign policy

It seems like a million years ago that Barack Obama, then at the apogee of his fame, gave his address to half a million people in Berlin in 2008. Curious to see the phenomenon of Obama-mania, I was a drop of water in that ocean of people.

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John C. Hulsman

Political risk assessment and the pandemic’s challenge

Aspenia Talks – Early strategic lessons from the virus

Obama, the domestic trap and the foreign policy gamble

G8: time for a rethink

The thwarted greatness of Barack Obama in foreign policy