International Political Risk Management: Exploring New Frontiers

Publisher Marketing: This work brings together the assessments and experiences of leading academics and practitioners from the international investor, lender and insurance communities. It examines the transformations in the political risk insurance market in the 1990s, resulting from changes in the broader insurance industry and from the rapid and complex expansion of foreign direct investment into emerging markets. It also analyzes some of the current supply and demand challenges in the political risk insurance marketplace in the wake of the financial crises of the late 1990s. The authors explore future directions in political risk management with regard to many of the most difficult issues: breach of contract coverage for firms with large fixed investments in sectors such as infrastructure and natural resources; securitization of political risk exposure; pricing and capacity in the political risk insurance industry; multiple pledge of shares between investors and lenders; and cooperation among private and public insurers. International Political Risk Management held in April 2000, under the joint auspices of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 127 (EAN 9780821370018, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Moran, Theodore H Theodore H. Moran holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair in International Business and Finance at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also the founder and director of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the university.