The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeGovernance, Policy and International AffairsDepartment of Peace, Conflict and Security
Rivalry, sanctions, instability, country risk and strategic dependencies
Geopolitical and political risk covers risks that arise from the actions of states and political systems: geopolitical rivalry and fragmentation, sanctions and economic statecraft, political instability, expropriation and country risk.
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Twin figures for the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Geopolitical and political risk: the faculty's twin of Horn of Africa on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to turn the globe, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows turn, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat map of the same data: the 13 countries on a graticule and the numbers below. The globe opens on devices with WebGL once its library has been checked; the live alerts, events and divisions load in the globe on request, each with its data date.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches country and political risk assessment, sanctions and economic statecraft reading, chokepoint and strategic dependency mapping, election and policy uncertainty monitoring and scenario planning for geopolitical shocks, without treating political judgement as forecasting, under ISO 31000. On the faculty's globe its case is the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden view: a corridor whose states, alerts and institutions are read from published records. A graduate can write a country risk assessment that separates record from judgement, map a strategic dependency and build a geopolitical scenario set that says what it is not.
This area covers risks that arise from the actions of states and political systems: geopolitical rivalry and fragmentation, sanctions and economic statecraft, political instability, expropriation and country risk. It is taught in the department of Peace, Conflict and Security, Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs, through 1 course with it as primary discipline and 2 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Recent developments in geopolitical and political risk, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Geopolitical and political risk, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.
Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 1 in preparation
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 3 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 1 |
These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
Also taught here2 courses that count in another discipline
Cited as places where the subject is practised; the institutions named are sources here, and Risk Academy hosts every course.
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