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How Vulnerable are Businesses to Political Risk?

A Framework to Understand Political Junctures And Aligning Them To Better Business Decisions

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5 min readSep 12, 2021
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Political risks are some of the most notable concerns by Business Executives and Board Members, but still, this is one of the less boarded subjects on risk management literature and courses.

It doesn’t matter in which industry a business is, there will always be some level of uncertainty attached to political events.

It is not difficult to understand why, we could just turn on the TV at any News channel and see changes due to political concerns that ultimately might affect some businesses environments, so the real question is not if but how it will affect our businesses…

And it goes even greater than the news, Geopolitical risks have been at the Global Risk Map of the Annual Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum every year, and 2021 is not the exception, pointing at least seven risks to be aware of:

The Global Risk Report 2021, Insight Report— Descriptions of Global Risks 2021, World Economic Forum (1)

Before going any further, and clearing some expectations about this article. In this article, I will not look to point any “political

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