The RANE Series

Essential Geopolitics: The Implications of U.S.-Russia Talks on War with Ukraine PART I

RANE’s Senior Middle East and North Africa Analyst Ryan Bohl and RANE’s Eurasia Analyst Matthew Orr explain the likely direction and implications of ongoing U.S.-Russia negotiations.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

RANE Insights: The Rise of Sports Gambling Addictions

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Sarah Church to discuss her practice’s approach to combatting gambling addiction and other related mental health disorders. 
Dr. Church is a clinical psychologist with more than 20 years of experience in research, program development, and treatment of patients with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. She is an expert in Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Therapy, (CRAFT), and Contingency Management.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: Key Events in South Korean Politics PART I

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE's Asia-Pacific Analyst Chase Blazek discusses South Korea’s political environment leading up to the December declaration of martial law and the subsequent political fallout.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: Key Events in South Korean Politics PART II

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE's Asia-Pacific Analyst Chase Blazek discusses South Korea’s political environment leading up to the December declaration of martial law and the subsequent political fallout.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

RANE Insights: The United States of Addiction Part V

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Mark Gold for the fifth episode in a multi-part discussion on the relationship between addiction and enterprise risk.
Dr. Gold is an author, inventor, and mentor who has had over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications since beginning his academic career at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine in the 1970s. He is best known for developing the pioneering translational laboratory to human research methods of discovery for addiction and psychiatry.
Find more content from Dr. Gold here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/mark-s-gold-md
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: Syria After Assad

After years of stagnation, Syria's civil war suddenly reignited in Nov. 2024 to truly spectacular geopolitical change. In less than a few weeks, the Syrian government, which had weathered 13 years of civil war, collapsed, in a remarkably fast and orderly transition. Now, shorn of the Assad family for the first time in fifty years, Syria is charting new, uncertain courses, many of which are fraught with the risk of another round of fighting. In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE's Senior Middle East and North Africa Analyst Ryan Bohl lays out likely future scenarios for the country and provides insight into the associated risks.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Applied Geopolitics: Demographic Decline and Military Manpower: Understanding the Shifting Role of Man in Conflict

In this episode of the Applied Geopolitics podcast, Rodger Baker, Leonie Müller, and Brandon Hilleary discuss the causes and implications of global demographic decline, specifically highlighting Japan and South Korea’s population trends.
The insights in this podcast are based on a paper that was researched and produced as part of the Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE 2024 Summer Fellows program. The primary contributors were Leonie Müller and Brandon Hilleary. Leonie Müller is a recent graduate of New York University with a Master of Arts in International Relations. Brandon Hilleary is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where he studied political science and global studies.
If you're interested in reading the full report, you can find it here: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f525debb813c3317da6a75e/673f7e980c50e53392b55cbc_Korea%20Japan%20Demographics%20Military%20PDF%2011112024%20(1)%20(1).pdf
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: Unpacking China’s Salt Typhoon Operation

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Cyber Intelligence Analyst, Hayley Benedict discusses the threat posed by China’s Salt Typhoon hacks. 
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: U.S.-Middle East Relations under a Second Trump Term

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Middle East and North Africa Analyst Kristin Ronzi discusses a few of the key policy issues of the Trump administration within the early part of his second term including the potential support of Israeli annexation of settlements in the West Bank, U.S.-Saudi relations, and U.S.-Turkey ties.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

Essential Geopolitics: Implications of Cancelled Peace Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Geopolitical Analyst Rémi Dodd gives an overview of conflict in the Eastern Congo and explains what to make of the recent cancellation of peace talks with Rwanda.
RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.