Global Intelligence Desk
Amid a shifting global playing field, the Global Intelligence Desk delivers timely and incisive analysis through calls, briefs, and in-person gatherings to help businesses navigate risks and opportunities.
What is happening to the rules-based global order? Who are the emerging players in a less predictable marketplace? How should businesses navigate a world no longer bound by the certainties of the post-Cold War era?
These are the questions of our time. As a shifting global playing field creates new risks—and new opportunities—the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has launched the Global Intelligence Desk to provide timely and incisive analysis delivered through calls, briefs, and in-person gatherings.
The Call is a series of live video conversations featuring expert guests, including subject matter experts at the Chamber. Live, interactive access is a benefit to the Chamber’s members. Replays of each episode are available the next day for wider viewing.
News and Insights
Coverage and analysis of critical geopolitical topics from Jay Sapsford, the Global Intelligence Desk’s Executive Editor and The Call host, as well as news and insights from our partners at RANE Network.
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The Global Intelligence Desk hosts Margaret Myers, director at the think tank Inter-American Dialogue, for a conversation that will shed light on the implications of China’s growing presence in Latin America.
Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed this month just as Europe’s largest economy faces growing economic challenges. Energy costs are high, productivity is low, and its population is aging even as a backlash is growing against immigration – which is fragmenting the political landscape into increasingly entrenched camps.
The U.S. Chamber's Global Intelligence Desk is delighted to host an episode of The Call with German Marshall Fund former president and Senior Advisor Heather A. Conley, a leading expert on the growing Chinese-Russian collaboration in the Arctic.
Some experts note similarities between China today and Japan three decades ago and warn that Beijing risks falling into the same deflationary issues that harmed Japan's economy.
Is China fighting off a Japan-style deflationary spiral? Stephen Roach, an economist affiliated with Yale University and a long-time scholar of both China and Japan, joins The Call to share his analysis, noting the similarities do not mean China is destined to suffer Japan’s fate – unless China’s leadership fails to rise to the challenge with much more action.
This week, Russia hosts the 16th BRICS Summit in the southwestern city of Kazan. What does the BRICS Summit say about Russian isolation? What effect have Western sanctions had on Russia’s economy? The Call is delighted to host Sergey Aleksashenko, former Russian central banker and board member of the Center for Analysis and Strategies in Europe (CASE).
Host Jay Sapsford welcomes Edward Price from the NYU Center for Global Affairs to discuss the increased fragmentation of world trade as the IMF and World Bank meet in Washington while the BRICS group of nations meets in Russia.
The potential economic costs of fragmentation will be one of the risks highlighted in Washington after an otherwise celebratory year.
On The Call, former U.S. advisor warns conflict entering troublesome new phase: ‘Everybody in the region is nervous.’
In this episode of The Call, host Jay Sapsford asks expert Professor Vali Nasr from Johns Hopkins what to expect from an increasingly volatile situation in the Middle East.
