Global Political Risk Discussion: Post #3

Read and react to one of the following contemporaneous events/developments:

More than 149 police injured, 172 people arrested in French pension protestsLinks to an external site.

 [France 24]

Additional attacks on American bases in Syria Friday after US retaliatory airstrikes on Iranian-backed groupsLinks to an external site.

 [ABC News]

Chad says it has nationalised all assets owned by Exxon MobilLinks to an external site.

 [Al Jazeera]

Post(1): provide a 200-300-word thoughtful reaction to (one of) the featured article(s) posted by the instructor. For a superb/quality post, the analysis must endeavor to connect the contemporaneous event/development to germane definitions of political/country risk, salient course concepts, applicable course lectures/lecture slides, pertinent assigned/required course readings, and “personal” experience (direct or vicarious, where applicable), and it must also identify Political (Country) Risk implications for the business community, furnish reference information (where applicable), and build on, rather than repeat, previous posts for the selected featured article. You must place the title of your featured contemporaneous article selection atop your primary post/analysis, because you may also wish to post commentaries on the any/some/all of the remaining articles.

The post should provide your own thoughtful and informed “so what?” (critical thinking) analysis of the event/development. Be sure to reflect on at least their implications for business (manager, entrepreneur, enterprise, market, customer, client, supplier, investment, etc.) and other non-state actors. Besides the first reaction/analysis on a featured article, subsequent reactions should endeavor to reference (i.e., build on) earlier reactions to the article.

Please note: given the class size and the number of articles, only up to SIX students may select each of the featured articles for their primary post/analysis– in the spirit of evenness/symmetry.

Reference your (external) source(s), where applicable