Climate change sell-out or landmark global warming fightback? Whatever your point of view, Cop28, the 28th such meeting of its kind, was not short on controversy. This year the event was held in Dubai and 84,000 people registered to attend. Critics often point to the carbon footprint of moving this many people from place to […]
Trump: Hitler, Reagan or Berlusconi?
Although the Republican party might want to think that Donald Trump is similar to Ronald Reagan, he seems closer to Silvio Berlusconi and Adolf Hitler in some ways.
Brexit? The Battle for the United Kingdom
On the 23rd of June, the United Kingdom will hold a referendum on whether it should remain in the European Union or strike out on its own potentially causing a shift in international relations as well as affecting the economic future of the U.K. and Europe as a whole.
The Easter Rising and the Middle East
Dublin is covered in signs commemorating the Easter Rising which occurred in 1916 and started a process leading to Irish independence as well as sectarian strife offering an example of the long terms affects of politicizing religion and also the possibility of overcoming seemingly hopeless conflict in the goodness of time.
IESE MBA Students and Geo-politics
The second year of IESE’s full time MBA program is winding down and last week the students in my course on Strategy and Geo-politics chose interesting examples drawn from companies and countries around the world.
The last months of the U.S. primaries (and why they matter)
As we enter the last few months of the entertaining and worrying U.S. Primary season, New York, Pennsylvania, and California are critical for the candidates to obtain their party’s nominations and maybe, becoming President of the United States.
