The ten rules governing how our new world really works (Rule 9: Knowing the Nature of the World You Live In; Or the Trials and Tribulations of George Harrison

Introduction: The Imperative of Understanding Time

Even if a political risk analyst is able to correctly see the basic power structure of the world at any given moment, how does this analysis allow for slow, organic, but very real change in the global system? How can time be factored into the analytical equation? All too often analysis tends to be both …