The World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report in January. This is based on its survey of the perceptions of around 1,500 experts across academia, business, government, the…
Tag: geopolitics
Megatrends and supply chains
We have seen how the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a spike in oil prices and a rapid re-alignment of European energy supply chains. In what other ways will geo-political…
China – A Superpower’s Growing Pains
In January 2022, we published a blog looking at possible futures for China. This was part of a series of blogs based on the scenarios developed as part of the…
No Limits? How will China and Russia’s alliance develop?
Introduction In February 2022 Vladimir Putin flew to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping on the eve of the Winter Olympics. The two leaders announced to the world that they had…
Drivers of change – on fast-forward?
We’ve noticed recently how SAMI’s six Drivers of Change seem to be super-charged, on fast-forward. We identified the major areas of change some years ago and still think they are…
Drivers of Change 2022 – Geopolitics
Our second global driver of change has, for a long time, been Geo-politics. In our definition this includes a move towards a “polymodal world” – changing balances of global power…