1103. Is Russia's Economy REALLY Collapsing or Does it have Greater Resilience?

About this episode

The episode discusses the resilience of Russia's economy amidst claims of its collapse, featuring insights from expert Nigel Gould-Davies.

Nigel Gould-Davies is a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Between 2010 and 2013 he held senior government relations roles in the international energy industry. Previously he has also served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where his roles included head of the Economic Section in Moscow, ambassador to Belarus, and project director in the Policy Planning Unit. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (Brookings, 2019).----------LINKS:https://twitter.com/Nigelgd1https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-gould-davies-5347b51a?originalSubdomain=ukhttps://www.iiss.org/people/russia-and-eurasia/dr-nigel-gould-davies/https://gsas.harvard.edu/person/nigel-gould-daviesBOOKS:Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Fink

Guest: Nigel Gould-Davies

Topics covered

• Russia's economy
• economic resilience
• political risk
• international relations
• energy industry

Keywords

• Russia
• economy
• collapse
• resilience
• political risk
• Nigel Gould-Davies
• IISS

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: International Institute for Strategic Studies, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Brookings

Books & works: Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation

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