Geopolitics for Investors by Malmgren, Pippa -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Biography Foreword 1. How to Think about Geopolitics

Separatist Movements Borders Dissolving Financial Architecture Questioned Non-State Actors Debt Problems

2. What Is Geopolitics?

Defining Geopolitics A Non-Quantifiable Risk Geography and Politics Benchmark Investing and Geopolitical Risk Black Swans Prediction vs. Preparation Investment and Geopolitics The State as an Essential “Unit” The Social Contract The Power to Tax Sovereign Risk and National Balance Sheets Sovereign Powers Quantitative Easing and Geopolitics Geopolitics as Mapping Nuclear Weapons Bioweapons

3. A History of the Word Geopolitics

Politics vs. Geopolitics Power and Sovereignty Are Indivisible The “Geo” in Geopolitics Classical Geopolitics Cold War “Bloc” Geopolitics Balance of Power The Origins of the EU: Geopolitics Two Blocs “New Geopolitics” of Globalisation Meta-Geopolitics Whose Geopolitics?

4. Weighing and Measuring

Effective National Territory Ecumenes Extra-Territorial Allegiances Non-Effective National Territory Commodity Strength and Commodity Vulnerability Shipping Lanes Price Stability Raw Materials Physical Footholds

5. World Order

What Is the World Order and How Much Is It Worth? Competing Visions of World Order

Wallerstein’s World Order. The Clash of Civilisations.

Hegemons, Capitalist Democracies, and Autocracies Financial Architecture The World Order and Finances Seigniorage Pax Americana The G–8

6. Statecraft and National Interest

The Instruments of Statecraft Sovereign Wealth Funds and Geopolitics State Intervention Critical Assets Modern Warfare and Diplomacy Technology and Warfare

Cyberwarfare. Sophisticated Weapons.

Near Catastrophes Outsourcing Conflict Insourcing Conflict

7. Practical Applications

Is Expertise Required? Big Data Outsourcing Think Tanks and Lobbyists Open Sourcing Insourcing Asset Acquisition Special Situations

8. Conclusion References About the CFA Institute Research Foundation

Named Endowments and Senior Research Fellows Board of Trustees Officers and Directors Review Board