Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. Country and political risk analyses: "What are they"? / Llewellyn D. Howell -- Ch. 2. "Countries in trouble": The economist method as a template for assessing political risk / Llewellyn D. Howell -- Pt. 2. Comprehensive country risk -- Ch. 3. International country risk guide (ICRG) / Christopher McKee -- Ch. 4. Business environment risk intelligence (BERI) S.A. / Saruhan Hatipoglu -- Ch. 5. Economist intelligence unit (EIU) / John Bowler -- Ch. 6. S.J. Rundt & Associates / Hans P. Belcsak -- Pt. 3. Political risk assessment -- Ch. 7. Political risk services (PRS) / Benedict F. McTernan -- Ch. 8. The Eurasia group global political risk index (GPRI) / Filipa Jorge. Ch. 9. The HIS country petroleum risk environment index (CPRE Index) / Terry Hallmark and Kevin Whited -- Pt. 4. Advising issues in political risk -- Ch. 10. Transparency International (TI) / Deborah Hardoon and Finn Heinrich -- Ch. 11. Anticipating political turmoil, virtual research associates (VRA) / Joe Bond, Doug Bond, Churl Oh, and Sean Yeo -- Ch. 12. Sea piracy as political risk / Llewellyn D. Howell -- Pt. 5. Political risk management -- Ch. 13. Political risk insurance: OPIC and other insurers / Steven L. Johnston and Llewellyn D. Howell -- Ch. 14. Control risk / Iain Donald -- Ch. 15. "A political risk manager's toolkit" / Llewellyn D. Howell -- Pt. 6. Economic and financial risk -- Ch. 16. Euromoney: "Country risk rating" / edited by Llewellyn D. Howell -- Ch. 17. Standard & Poor's rating group / Alexandra Dimitrijevic, David T Beers, John Chambers, Moritz Kraemer, Coleen Woodell -- Ch. 18. Fitch's investor rating: sovereign rating criteria / David Riley, Tony Stringer, Richard Fox, Andrew Colquhoun.

The new 5th Edition Handbook, a popular academic textbook, presents and comments on the world's leading commercial risk assessment methodologies. This perfect-bound volume was edited by Llewellyn D. Howell, Ph.D., a leading international expert on country risk analysis.