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By: John Hulsman

Dr. John C. Hulsman is Senior Columnist at City AM, and Founder and Managing Partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a global political risk consulting firm. More of John’s work is available on his substack

  • The first presidential debate portends the coming train wreck for American democracy

    October 5, 2020

    The great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, perfectly summed up the dynamic underlying the shambolic first US presidential debate: “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get muddy but the pig likes it.”  Instead, the just-concluded first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden — surely the ugliest in the nation’s history — saw both its [...]

  • The Supreme Court fight is a policy revolution, lying on top of surprising US political stability

    September 28, 2020

    On its face, the events surrounding the 2020 American election seem too far-fetched even for the most preposterous Netflix series.  We have had a pandemic of biblical proportions, riots in the streets, two fascinating (if deeply-flawed) protagonists, and a polarised, volatile electorate lurching from the populist left to the populist right, and no doubt back [...]

  • Japan’s Yoshihide Suga: New Prime Minister, same old problems

    September 21, 2020

    All my life I have been fascinated by island kingdoms with honour cultures off large, unknowable continents. For in both the UK and Japan, things are rarely as they seem, and subtext is all.  For example, the key to understanding modern Japanese politics is to know that the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is not [...]

  • To understand Russian President Vladimir Putin, we must see the world through his eyes

    September 14, 2020

    One of the most valuable analytical lessons of all was explained to me succinctly by my foreign policy tutor during my happy days at St. Andrews.  As he put it, the key to political risk analysis is not to imagine what you would do if you were in Fidel Castro’s shoes, but rather to empathize [...]

  • Putin holds all the cards in Belarus

    September 7, 2020

    One of the greatest problems in political risk analysis is that the heart so often gets the better of the head.  Because we want a political outcome to happen, we think that it will. Karmic justice must apply to all situations in history, with the good rewarded and the bad punished.  But this is to [...]

  • Pandemic hysteria is blinding us to the virus’s real risks

    August 31, 2020

    I have long held off writing this column, as I well know it will lead to some hysterical responses. Nevertheless, the credo of any good opinion writer surely must be to be fearless, to fly in the face of received opinion if the cause is just.  And there has rarely been a greater need for [...]

  • By ignoring the Civil War in Libya, the EU risks its stability

    August 24, 2020

    The art of statecraft consists in large part of separating risks which cannot be tolerated from those which have to be lived with. This key political realist imperative is all but lost on the European Union. While EU leaders are focused on Belarus, which will remain close to regional power Russia whatever the outcome of [...]

  • In picking Kamala Harris, Joe Biden continues his successful front porch campaign

    August 17, 2020

    To know some history, to comprehend the story of the past, is the invaluable guide in understanding the political present. For example, if I had a pound for every time it has been printed that the upcoming 2020 US presidential campaign is unprecedented, I’d be rich. I confess my first thoughts were also along these [...]

  • Lebanon’s greatest tragedy is its political class

    August 10, 2020

    Following this past terrible Tuesday, it is easy to think about what happened in Beirut as a horrible act of God, of impersonal fate intervening to devastate this already crumbling country. But instead it is rage at Lebanon’s corrupt and incompetent political class that ought to be the dominant emotion.   Following Tuesday’s gargantuan explosion — [...]

  • The duelling narratives that will define November’s US presidential election

    August 3, 2020

    There is a theory behind every presidential campaign, a basic narrative as to why the specific presidential aspirant and the specific moment are met, why the candidate is uniquely gifted to help the country through its present moment of peril.  Of course, more often than not, this amounts to nonsense.  For every Franklin Roosevelt or [...]

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