Michel Henry Bouchet is currently Distinguished Finance Professor at SKEMA Business School as well as strategy adviser. He has held senior positions at BNP, the World Bank, and the Institute of International Finance. He also served as CEO of Owen Stanley Financial SA. and as senior adviser for ING Barings. Bouchet graduated in Economics from the University of Paris X and from the Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques. He also holds a Master and Ph.D. in International Relations from University of South Carolina. He received his HDR from University Paris-Dauphine.

Amaury Goguel is the scientific Director for the MSc Financial Management and Investment (FMI) program at SKEMA Business School in Paris. He was previously head of SKEMA's MSc in Corporate Financial Management (CFM). Goguel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Lille University. He also holds master's degrees from the College of Europe (Bruges), Paris 1 Sorbonne, and Complutense University of Madrid. He served as a consultant on global finance, European affairs, and political parties.

Considers the various dimensions of country risk

Written with current geopolitical in mind

Features a variety of global case studies

Includes a foreword by Tanya S. Beder and an Afterword by Florencio de Silanes

Foreword by Tanya Beder.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Assessing Risk in a Global Economy.- Chapter 2. What is Country Risk?.- Chapter 3. Country Risk in the age of Globalization: Cycles and Dynamics: A review of Literature.- Chapter 4. Country Risk Assessment: the key role of official information sources.- Chapter 5: Country Risk Assessment: The role of private sources of market and economic intelligence.- Chapter 6. Volatility, spillovers, and crisis contamination: The new dynamics of countr risk since the 1980s and 90s in the globalized market economy.- Chapter 7. Fragility and vulnerability of integrated areas.- Chapter 8. At the root of country risk: The balance of payments from liquidity to solvency crisis.- Chapter 9. Root Causes and Consequences of Political Risk: Defining Political Risk and its Various Dimensions.- Chapter 10. The Root Causes and Consequences of Political Risk: From Bad Governance to Wealth and Political Power Concentration, and Social Instability.- Chapter 11. Why Emerging Markets do not hold a monopoly on Country Risk in the XXI° century: An analysis of monetary and systemic risks in the OECD and in the Euro-zone.- Chapter 12. External debt sustainability: From liquidity tensions to solvency crisis.- Chapter 13. In search of early warning signals of Country Risk: Focusing on market price signals.- Chapter 14. In search of early warning signals of Country Risk: Focusing on Capital Flight.- Chapter 15. Country Risk Mitigation Strategies.- Chapter 16. Glossary: The 200 most important terms and concepts for country risk managers.- Conclusion.- Afterward by Florencio de Silanes.