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Melting Arctic May Redraw Global Geopolitical Map

This year’s frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of even starker changes to come. If, as many scientists predict, currently inaccessible sea lanes across the top of the world become navigable …

Miller Names Cunningham, Wauchope for Political, War, Trade Credit Risks

The UK’s Miller, a London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced that it has appointed James Cunningham and Ewan Wauchope to bolster the broker’s political risk, trade credit and political violence capabilities. Cunningham joins Miller from Marsh. He has 20 …

Arab Political Shocks Demand Risk Rating Rethink

Attempting to predict the future, rather than imagining possible versions of it, may have blinded risk analysts to the likelihood of this year’s uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. Concentrating on what precedent taught was probable, and trying …