Managing risk necessitates an understanding of both how to avoid detrimental outcomes and to reap beneficial results. Organizations are regularly confronted with complex decisions involving risk and the impending consequences of the negative impact of its manifestation. However, the positive aspects of embracing risk should also be sufficiently evaluated to obtain a full assessment of opportunities.

Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity covers a range of viewpoints and issues which can be applied to various organizational agency structures. These perspectives examine how social and political risk can impact an agency, and what recommendations are made to adapt, mitigate, and strengthen the organization against political risk. Accessibility to personnel and agencies via social media, the internet and public exposure compounded with political and social societal shifts have led many agencies in a constant spin to assuage and sustain viability and relevance publicly.

Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity serves the readers by raising awareness and the necessity to control social and political risks in their organizations. This volume explores pathways for those in differing organizational structures to find common threads pertaining to social and political risks. An important goal of the work is also to develop a framework for managing and exploiting risk that can be applied at the organizational level.

The chapters will be written by a select group of leading authors in their areas of expertise. Authors are comprised of academics and practitioners in their respective fields. Their expertise extends from public and governmental agencies, political science, criminal justice, business, community-based corrections, animal welfare and members of the private and nonprofit sectors

Part I - Fundamental Concepts, Ideas, Principles and Approaches

Policing and the social and political cost of "lost legitimacy" - Paul O'Connell

Grand corruption: capital flight and endemic risk - Michael Schidlow

Social and political risk with international non-profits: resiliency focused crime prevention programs - Heath Grant

Political risk analysis - Heinrich Matthee

Public and private organizations and sustainable global operations - Markus Biehl

Social and political risks with domestic non-profits - Katherine Kinkela

Global governance and sustainable development - Kensai Hiwaki

Socio-political risks of local elections - Stephen Morreale

Part II - Applications

The Socio-political risk of the new Title IX (sex discrimination) regulations and the impact on institutions of higher education - Cathryn Lavery

Democratic theory, higher education, and popular culture - risk and responsibility - Stevens Michels

The social and political risks of task forces in investigation and conflicts for senior management - David T. Mulcahy

An alternative model for international education - Markus Klose and Suzan Sariefe

How to effectively manage political and social risk for animal protection non-profit's efforts toward creating social change - Kimberly Spanjol

Energy Modelling and Regulatory Compliance - Stephen Todd

Changes in the nature of self-reported risk: a longitudinal study of 10-K filings (financial performance reports) - Jeanne Zaino