Marvin Zonis is a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and Business Strategy in the Era of E-Commerce. He also heads Marvin Zonis + Associates, Inc., political risk consultants. The firm works with corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world to help them identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the constantly changing global environment. In short, he is a global political economist.
Recent Blog Posts by Marvin Zonis
- A Beheading in London; A Bombing in Boston: The Transformations of the al-Qaeda Threat
- Should Reagan Get Credit for Bill Clinton’s Budget Surplus?
- Flying to Ankara
- The Distortions of U.S. Intelligence and U.S. International Strategy
- Waiting for North Korea
- Iran Is Winning The ‘Long War’
- The New Israeli Government and The Second-Term U.S. President
- Three Murders in Paris
- How To Think of The Gaza War
- Betting on Tuesday’s Winners
- Pakistan: Hostile and Disliked
- There’ll Always Be France
- Prelude to a Shooting War
- Iran Hysteria
- The Middle East Is Boiling and Everything Is Connected to Everything!
- Progress Under Bush and Obama: The Federal Government Shapes Up
- Al Qaeda Lost. But Neither Did the U.S. Win
- What Bashar al Assad Learned About Staying in Power from the Corleone Family and How He Is Preparing His Last Redoubt
- On the Deficit, Poverty and Paying More Taxes
- The U.S. Is at War: Also with Iran
- Why the Syrian Army Kills for the Assad Clan
- Is Obama Losing His Touch?
- Obama Speaks: Who’s Listening? Answer: The Saudis and Israelis and Palestinians
- Pakistan’s Obsession
- Death of Osama Bin Laden
- Secularism Is Out; Islam Is In
- Yemen in Tatters: Political Risk to Make Your Hair Stand on End!
- Japan: ‘But Oldsters Don’t Riot’
- The Old Timers of the Middle East
- The Age of Uncertainty, Part II












