2012 Political Risk Map
Bafn Bay Beaufort Sea Barents Sea Davis Strait Nor wegian Sea
G R E E N L A N D
Kara Sea
ARCTIC OCEAN
Laptev Sea East Siberian Sea
Alaska (US)
Godthb Reykjavik Anchorage
ICELAND
SWEDEN
FINLAND
RUSSIA
Hudson Bay
North Sea
NORWAY
Oslo Stockholm
Helsinki Tallinn St Petersburg
ESTONIA
DENMARK Copenhagen
Bering Sea
Moscow Novosibirsk
Riga Kaliningrad (Russia) Vilnius
LATVIA
IRELAND
Dublin
UNITED KINGDOM
London
NETHERLANDS BELGIUM
LITHUANIA
Sea of Okhotsk
Minsk
Berlin
POLAND
Warsaw Prague CZECH REP
BELARUS
Vancouver
C A N A D A
Qubec Montral Ottawa Toronto Boston New York Washington, D.C. Azores (Port)
GERMANY
UKRAINE Kiev
Seattle
SLOVAKIA AUSTRIA LIECHTENSTEIN Bern FRANCE HUNGARY SWITZERLAND SLOVENIA
LUXEMBOURG
Paris
K A Z A K H S TA N
ROMANIA
Bucharest
MOLDOVA
Ulan Bator
MONGOLIA
Casp
GEORGIA ARMENIA
ITALY
Belgrade
CROATIA Sarajevo
MONACO
Chicago
SAN MARINO VATICAN
BULGARIA
BOSNIA
MONTENEGRO
Black Sea
Ankara
Bishkek
Alma Ata
Vladivostock
ian
Sea
San Francisco
U N I T E D S TAT E S O F A M E R I C A
PORTUGAL
Lisbon
ANDORRA
Rome
F.Y.R. MACEDONIA
GREECE
Madrid
AZERBAIJAN
KYRGYZSTAN UZBEKISTAN Tashkent TURKMENISTAN
Dushanbe Ashkhabad
NORTH KOREA
SPAIN
Tunis
Gibraltar (UK) Ceuta (Sp)
Baku
SERBIA
Athens
TURKEY
SYRIA
Beijing
TAJIKISTAN
Pyongyang Seoul
SOUTH KOREA
Algiers
ed
ALBANIA MALTA
Los Angeles
Melilla (Sp)
Dallas Bermuda (UK) Houston New Orleans
Madeira (Port)
Rabat
TUNISIA
MOROCCO
The Canaries (Sp)
Tripoli
ite Se rran a ea
LEBANON CYPRUS
PALESTINE ISRAEL Tel Aviv
Beirut Damascus Amman
JORDAN
Tehran Baghdad
IRAN
AFGHANISTAN
Kabul Islamabad
CHINA
Tokyo Osaka
JAPAN
IRAQ
Wuhan
Shanghai
ALGERIA LIBYA
Cairo
KUWAIT
Th
e
Gu
BAHRAIN
PAKISTAN
Delhi
NEPAL
Gulf of Mexico
MEXICO
Miami Havana
Cayman Islands (UK) BAHAMAS
CUBA
ATLANTIC OCEAN
HAITI DOMINICAN REP
Katmandu
El Aaiun Western Sahara
EGYPT
BHUTAN
Thimphu Abu Dhabi Muscat Karachi
BANGLADESH
East China Sea
Taipei
TAIWAN HONG KONG MACAU
Riyadh
QATAR
lf
Jeddah
SAUDI ARABIA
UAE
INDIA
Dhaka Kolkata
BURMA (MYANMAR)
PACIFIC OCEAN
GUAM
OMAN
Hawaiian Islands (USA)
Guadalajara Mexico City
BELIZE
MAURITANIA
PUERTO RICO (US)
Mecca
Hanoi Vientiane
Red
JAMAICA
Kingston Port-auPrince
Guatemala
GUATEMALA
EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA
HONDURAS
San Salvador
Tegucigalpa
Caribbean Sea
Panama
Guadeloupe (Fr) DOMINICA ANGUILLA ST. LUCIA Netherlands BARBADOS Antilles (NL) ST. VINCENT GRENADA
CAPE VERDE
Dakar Banjul
GAMBIA GUINEA BISSAU
CHAD
Bamako
BURKINA FASO
Khartoum
Niamey N'Djamena
BENIN
SUDAN
Sana
Managua San Jos
COSTA RICA
Caracas
Bissau
f f o Gul
Ad
en
Belmopan
Santo Domingo ST. KITTS
& NEVIS
VIRGIN ISLANDS (US) ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
MALI
SENEGAL
Nouakchott
NIGER
ERITREA
Arabian Sea
YEMEN
Mumbai Rangoon
Se
a
THAILAND
Bangkok
LAOS
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
GUINEA
DJIBOUTI SOMALIA
Bay of Bengal
CAMBODIA VIETNAM
Phnom Penh
South China Sea
Manila
PHILIPPINES
MICRONESIA
VENEZUELA
GUYANA
Conakry Freetown Paramaribo
SIERRA LEONE LIBERIA COTE D'IVOIRE
NIGERIA
Monrovia Abidjan Accra Lom
CAMEROON
Addis Ababa
PANAMA
Georgetown Bogot
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Bangui Yaound
SOUTH SUDAN
ETHIOPIA
SRI LANKA MALDIVES Colombo
PALAU
KIRIBATI MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur
BRUNEI
COLOMBIA
Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
FRENCH GUIANA (FR) SURINAME Cayenne
TOGO EQ GUINEA GHANA
UGANDA
Mogadishu
INDIAN OCEAN
KENYA
NAURU
Quito
SAO TOME & PRINCIPE
ECUADOR
Fortaleza
GABON
Brazzaville
Libreville
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Kampala OF CONGO
Kigali Nairobi
SINGAPORE
CONGO
Bujumbura
RWANDA
SEYCHELLES INDONESIA
Jakarta Dili
PERU
BRAZIL
Ascension Island (UK)
Cabinda (Angola)
Kinshasa Dar-es-Salaam
TANZANIA
Luanda
BURUNDI MALAWI COMOROS
PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOLOMON ISLANDS TIMOR LESTE
Port Moresby Honiara
Lima
SAMOA
ANGOLA
Salvador
NIUE (NZ) TONGA
Tahiti
FRENCH POLYNESIA
PACIFIC OCEAN
Africa & Middle East selected elections of interest
BOLIVIA
Brasilia La Paz St. Helena (UK)
ZAMBIA
Lusaka Harare
Lilongwe
Timor Sea
TUVALU
Darwin
FIJI VANUATU MOZAMBIQUE
Antananarivo
ZIMBABWE
Rio de Janeiro So Paulo Asuncin Windhoek
MAURITIUS
Reunion Islands (Fr) New Caledonia (Fr)
MADAGASCAR
Election
Region Africa
Country Angola Algeria Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo Brazzaville Equatorial Guinea Gambia Ghana Guinea Bissau Lesotho Madagascar Mali Senegal Sierra Leone Sudan Togo Zambia Zimbabwe
Election Parliamentary September 2012 Legislative May 2012 Parliamentary May 2012 Legislative July 2012 Legislative 2012 Parliamentary 2012 Legislative 29 March 2012 Presidential December 2012 Parliamentary - 2012 Parliamentary February 2012 Presidential (Tentative) March 2012 Presidential 29 April & 13 May 2012 Presidential 26 February 2012 Legislative November 2012 Referendum (Postponed) 2012 Parliamentary October 2012 Referendum 2012 Parliamentary (Tentative) 2012 Presidential March 2012 Parliamentary 29 March 2012 Presidential 4 May 2012 Legislative (Tentative) February 2012 Presidential 21 February 2012 (Tentative)
PARAGUAY
BOTSWANA
Gaborone Pretoria Johannesburg Maputo
ATLANTIC OCEAN
NAMIBIA
KEY
Country risk level
SWAZILAND
Symbols illustrating signicant risks
EXCHANGE TRANSFER: SOVEREIGN NON-PAYMENT: POLITICAL INTERFERENCE: SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION:
Perth
AUSTRALIA
Brisbane
SOUTH AFRICA
Legislative December 2012 Presidential April 2012 Parliamentary (Tentative) March 2012 Parliamentary 1 July & 22 July 2012 Parliamentary 17 June 2012 Presidential 17 November 2012
Santiago Buenos Aires
Low risk
LESOTHO
URUGUAY
Cape Town
Medium-low risk
ARGENTINA
Montevideo
Sydney Adelaide Canberra Melbourne
CHILE
Medium risk Medium-high risk
Tasman Sea
Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
LEGAL & REGULATORY RISK: High risk
Referendum (Tentative) - 2012
Wellington
POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Very high risk
Christchurch
Middle East
Egypt Iran Palestine Syria Yemen
Parliamentary 4 May 2012
Non Rated
Falkland Islands (UK)
Dates correct at time of print - January 2012
Line of Control
Scotia Sea
SOUTHERN OCEAN
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