To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. 480 BC: Introduction-The First Political Risk Analysts: The Pythia of Delphi -- CHAPTER TWO. 31 AD: We Are the Risk; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- CHAPTER THREE. 1192 AD: Gaming Out Lunatics; The Assassins and the Old Man of the Mountain -- CHAPTER FOUR. 1503 AD: Gaming Out Chess Players; Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, and Pope Julius II -- CHAPTER FIVE. 1776: Everything to Play For; John Adams and Game-Changers -- CHAPTER SIX. 1797: Getting to Goldilocks; Napoleon and the Venetian Republic -- CHAPTER SEVEN. 1863: The Losing Gambler Syndrome; Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg -- CHAPTER EIGHT. 1895: Knowing Your Country's Place in the World; Lord Salisbury Saves the British Empire -- CHAPTER NINE. 1898-1912: The Promised Land Fallacy; Von Tirpitz Disastrously Builds a Navy -- CHAPTER TEN. 1970: Knowing the Nature of the World You Live In; Or the Trials and Tribulations of George Harrison -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. 1978: The Butterfly Effect in Political Risk; Or Deng Xiaoping and the Perils of a Drunken Sea Captain -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Conclusion: Back to the Pythia's Lair; Mastering Geopolitical Risk -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index