Fifteen years ago, Henry Kissinger published a book with the provocative title Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Kissinger was concerned that with the Cold War over, policy makers had become reluctant to articulate a clear vision of U.S. self-interest.
We’re putting forth a provocative idea of our own in this month’s Big Idea, “Why Your Company Needs a Foreign Policy” (page 36). In the article, John Chipman, chief executive of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, argues that companies, too, need a strategy for protecting their interests in an increasingly unstable world.
For Chipman, things changed two years ago, when Russia invaded and then annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. It was the first major strategic crisis in Europe in a generation, and as I write, Europe faces another crisis: Britain has…
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Harvard Business Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2016