Offering a fresh, transparent approach encompassing new material, this invigorating volume measures political risk - for instance the risk that foreign investment might face in any country. It also demonstrates how progress or regress made in good governance initiatives as conditionalities to aid can be assessed.

Charlotte H. Brink teaches Political Risk Analysis at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Contents: Introducing political risk; Thinking about political risk: a conceptualization; Thoughts and examples on modelling political risk analysis; Political risk factors and their indicators; Presenting a model for political risk analysis; Managing political risk; Summary and concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.