July 01, 2025
From Russia with Risk
Here on the Bear Market Brief, a lot of what we focus on is, simply put, risk: what might happen, and what might it mean? On this episode, Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Aaron Schwartzbaum to delve in the discipline of Political Risk: how does one “do” the field?
Listen to the full interview at Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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