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In this episode of RANE's Beyond COVID podcast, our experts offer the latest intelligence on vaccine efficacy and the evolving status of the pandemic. Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, and Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents. Our host, David Lawrence, is the founder of RANE. RANE is a...

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, Sam Lichtenstein, RANE’s Director of Analysis shares his insights on the latest round of violent protests in Haiti following a wave of gang killings of police officers. RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for o...

In today’s episode of the Cyber Survival podcast - part of the RANE Insights series - David Lawrence speaks to Chris Reynolds, the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Toyota. Reynolds is responsible for a whole roster of departments at Toyota, including evaluating its global risk. The conversation that follows is a broad-ranging look at global corporate risk, with insights...

The RANE Insights podcast is a room where great ideas are shared and the world’s leading business and risk management experts convene. In today’s podcast, host and RANE founder, David Lawrence speaks to Stacey Vanek Smith, a business and economics reporter and co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. Stacey Vanek Smith is also the author of “Machiavelli For Women,” a book inspired by Mach...

In this episode of Applied Geopolitics from RANE, host Rodger Baker speaks to Dr. Kamran Bokhari, Director of Analytical Development at the New Lines Institute, who has just returned from a trip to Central Asia. They discuss how Central Asia is re-emerging as a key region for trans-Eurasian trade. But the landlocked Central Asian “Stans” sit in a complicated neighborhood, with a new sort of Great...

Welcome to RANE’s Essential Geopolitics podcast, I’m your host, Emily Donahue. Just reminding you here that this podcast is really essential listening – for business executives, academics, security experts and more! So buckle up and sit back. We’re taking off to Ukraine, where we'll get into the recent transition of Western military aid to Ukraine. Tanks, Missiles, support. Much has been made of t...

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Emily Hawthorne about Egypt's current crisis. Emily Hawthorne is RANE's senior Middle East and North Africa analyst. In recent analyses for RANE Clients, she points out that Egypt's economy will remain vulnerable so long as the war in Ukraine continues to chip away at Cairo's foreign currency reserves by making imports more...

In this episode of RANE's essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue. welcomes Nate Fishler, RANE’s Asia Pacific analyst. He’s written extensively on China’s demographics and points out that population decline is but one of many demographic issues China faces today. You can stay ahead of how China’s demographic challenges could affect your business with RANE Intelligence Briefs. Our flagship Ris...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, we dive into ChatGPT. The chatbot has been getting a tremendous amount of attention in the press. Both positive and negative. But RANE risk analysts have flagged some pretty interesting risks from ChatGPT. Sam Lichtenstein talks about some of the cybersecurity risks. Sam Lichtenstein is RANE’s director of analysis. RANE Intelligence products...

In this episode of RANE's Beyond Covid podcast, our experts offer the latest intelligence on the highly contagious XBB variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus and the risks for mass spreading now that China has opened its borders to travelers.  The pandemic raised people’s awareness of infectious diseases - and also the hunger for information about emerging diseases. So this podcast is looking beyond Covi...

In this episode of RANE’s Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks to RANE Latin America analyst, Carmen Colosi, about the possible repercussions after supporters of Brazil's former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro broke into and vandalized the headquarters of the country's three branches of government — including the presidential palace, the Congress building and the Supreme Court —...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, we gaze into Europe's near future. The past three years have been tumultuous in Europe, as the United Kingdom left the European Union, the COVID-19 pandemic brought high human and economic impacts on the continent, and the war in Ukraine led to a cost of living crisis across Europe. Adriano Bosoni, RANE’s director of analysis discusses how t...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, the conversation is about Israel’s new government. Specifically, National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir. His recent visit to the Temple Mount was controversial but as RANE’s senior Middle East and North Africa analyst, Ryan Bohl, tells us, not quite as destabilizing as it might have been.  RANE is the Risk Assistance Network and Exchang...

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, we look at the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan. Isaia Galace, RANE’s global security analyst, says both situations can be attributed to one extremist group. You can read what 2023 holds for global security situations by signing up for RANE Worldview, our platform for strategy and operational...

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, an advance preview of some of the major security trends we'll be watching in 2023, drawing from both the RANE Worldview and RANE Threat Lens forecasts -- a bit of a teaser, so to speak from RANE’s director of analysis, Sam Lichtenstein.  RANE's 2023 Annual Geopolitical Forecast will publish on January 3, 2023. You can view both strate...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, we look at Militant and grassroots violence in the West Bank, which has intensified in the last months of 2022. This, alongside Israeli counterterrorism operations and a spike in Israeli far-right violence, says RANE's global security analyst, Charles Thorson, indicates that 2023 will bring more unrest and violence. You can read RANE's full...

In this episode of the Beyond Covid podcast from RANE, the risk intelligence company, Dr. Bill Lang and Dr. Fred Southwick share best practices for beating the "tripledemic" of R.S.V., flu and Covid-19.  Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents. David Larenc...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, we look at the Qatari influence campaign in the EU. You might know the headlines - coming as they did amid the World Cup and with all eyes on Qatar. There were accusations of corruption among European civil servants and politicians accepting bribes as Qatar sought to gain influence in the European Parliament. But RANE's Senior Middle East an...

The field of geopolitics is having a bit of a revival. Geopolitical risk is a key challenge for internationally engaged businesses and organizations. The re-emergence of a multipolar system is driving strategists to revisit concepts of geopolitical analysis. And even academia is rehabilitating geopolitics as a viable and important field of study, particularly in Europe, but more recently in the Un...

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE we look at rising tensions between Kosovo and Serbia.  In December 2022, tensions flared in north Kosovo as hundreds of ethnic Serbs erected roadblocks using heavy machinery at two border crossings with Serbia - the latest battle in a centuries-old geopolitical tug-of-war. Recently, there’s talk that those tensions could spark another...

In this episode of RANE's Beyond Covid podcast, our host David Lawrence talks with Dr. Bill Lang and Dr. Fred Southwick about the potential for Covid to complicate an already intense flu season. Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents. David Larence is the...

In this episode of your favorite AND essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, the South African president's political problems. The African National Congress (ANC) executive council says it will back South African President Cyril Ramaphosa against an impeachment inquiry. But the corruption allegations against Ramaphosa are not good news for the country’s ruling party. RANE’s sub-Saharan Africa ana...

https://www.ranenetwork.com/Over the past few years, RANE has shared a multitude of insights on board management; in this podcast, in our summits with Nasdaq on board excellence and oversight, and in regular briefings with our clients. All were geared toward defining and refining the board’s role in overseeing and supporting an organization. But what if members of the board are not engaged with th...

Nepal is a perfect geopolitical specimen. It is a small country landlocked between two regional powers. To the north is China. To the southeast is India. In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with RANE’s South Asia analyst Ekta Raguwanshi about how Nepal's new government will struggle to maneuver between India and China. You can read Ekta Raguwanshi's...

In recent months, politicians and business leaders across Europe have warned about companies leaving the continent if energy prices remain high and the EU doesn’t help energy-intensive industries. In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Adriano Bosoni, RANE’s director of analysis, looks at the two-fold problem of energy conditions in Europe and deindustrialization. You can read Ad...