Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Carole Walker and @charleshecker.bsky.social on Hormuz, Iran's absentee Supreme Leader and the day's other stories, and a letter from Oaxaca. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
🎙️ This morning @charleshecker.bsky.social & I spoke to @georginagodwin.bsky.social on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the Trump administration's suggestion that they might lift sanctions on Russian oil. The segment starts 3 minutes and 40 seconds into the recording
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To understand the economic pressure Russia is under, see @charleshecker.bsky.social's recent interview here ➡️ tinyurl.com/43pft42h. Read his book, ‘Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia’.
‘Fascinating’ @financialtimes.com
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Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and @charleshecker.bsky.social on whether Donald Trump may have a point re: the return of Nouri Maliki, plus the day's other stuff, and a letter from Gregory Scruggs in Santo Domingo. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
🔴 The Long View #008
The Russian business environment has fundamentally changed.
@charleshecker.bsky.social explains why new elites, new laws, and hard feelings complicate any return of Western companies.
🔴 The Long View #008
Even severe economic pressure does not always change political behavior.
@charleshecker.bsky.social explains why Russia’s worsening economic outlook may not be the decisive factor for Putin.
🔴 The Long View #008
Western Businesses in Post-Soviet Russia, Part 2
Following a strong response to last year’s event, Thane Gustafson and @charleshecker.bsky.social return to continue the conversation.
Register to attend.
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It was a pleasure - thank you for inviting me to the microphone!
If you haven’t read ‘How Tyrants Fall,’ by @marceldirsus.com, you need to do that now. But first, listen to Marcel and I talk about the history (and the future) of Western business in Russia, in his great new podcast, The Next Best. The timing could not be better.
Thank you!
It’s my great honour to join @rusi.bsky.social as an Assoc Fellow in the International Security Research Group, under Dr Neil Melvin. Huge thanks to Rachel Ellehuus, Neil Watling and Emily Ferris for their warm welcome. Looking forward to leaning *and* contributing.
Thank you to the @kennaninstitute.bsky.social for the terrific conversation, and congratulations on a successful re-launch.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @charleshecker.bsky.social and Carole Walker on the US-Russia "peace plan" for Ukraine, and the day's other stuff, plus @pburtsoff.bsky.social reports from Hanaholmen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
The control and use of language in the book is so artful. I think that’s one of the elements that makes it work so well.
I can’t break the nasty habit. Ditching cigarettes (20 years ago) was easier.
👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻! It’s just *such* a good book. So glad you’re enjoying it. I’m here, but finding it hard to juggle two accounts. Ugh. 🙃
📖🎉 Big book news! Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, is an Editors' Choice in the @nytimes.com this week. Zero Sum is out the US w/ @oxunipress.bsky.social. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @benhnoble.bsky.social
6 New Books We Recommend This Week www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...
I am hugely grateful for this thoughtful and wonderfully written review of Zero Sum in The Tablet. As companies prepare to re-enter Russia, read what it was like when they entered 30 years ago - and evacuated 3 years ago. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @benhnoble.bsky.social
What an honour for Zero Sum
to be reviewed in @foreignaffairs.com and by none other than Maria Lipman, whose work I have always admired. www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/zero... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @benhnoble.bsky.social
So grateful for the stewardship of @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @michaeldwyer.bsky.social as Zero Sum gains recognition from reviews in publications like the @financialtimes.com and the @nytimes.com ⬇️
Zero Sum's launch day in the US is accompanied by this wonderful review in the @nytimes.com by David Kortava of @foreignaffairs.com Zero Sum is available via @oxfordunipress.bsky.social and @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @benhnoble.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...
It was such a pleasure to work on this creative project with @literaryhub.bsky.social If you want to understand contemporary Russia, rewind a few years - and then a few decades - to learn the most.
Huge thanks to @joshuachuminski.bsky.social and the CSPC for being such gracious hosts today and providing such a fantastic platform to discuss my book. Dramatic change is afoot around the world; being in DC at a time like this is… electrifying (in a very complex way).
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @terrystiastny.bsky.social and @charleshecker.bsky.social on Trump-whispering, micro-managing and keeping influencers out of journalism, plus NATO's head of policy planning, Benedetta Berti-Alberti, interviewed at @munsecconf.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Huge thanks to everyone who pre-ordered Zero Sum in the US. I’m truly grateful. These feverish days are the perfect time to read about the triumphant highs and devastating lows in the history of Western business in Russia.
Zero Sum in the ‘Smart Thinking’ section @waterstones.bsky.social Picadilly. @benhnoble.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social Business, Russia and geopolitics. How timely.
#Trump posits welcoming #Russia back into the #G7. As businesses prep for their re-entry plans to the Russian market, what did they learn on their way out? Read @charleshecker.bsky.social's #ZeroSum: The Arc of International Business in Russia. ‘Fascinating’ @financialtimes.com tinyurl.com/485er3kk
🚨Heads up New York! Join me on 27 March @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s Harriman Institute for a book talk with Alexander Cooley on the past, present & future of int’l business in Russia. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Register ⬇️
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Catch me and David Benyon talking about Russia and geopolitical risk on the brilliant Political Risk Podcast, at the link below (and others too). Thanks, Dave, for letting me talk about my book Zero Sum, from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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A now de-classified 1994 memo from the US Moscow embassy to the State Dept candidly warned that the US was getting it wrong in Russia. Its author suffered the consequences. Did the relationship suffer, too? A few thoughts from me, in @thespectator1828.bsky.social
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