Michael Moran

Foreign Affairs Columnist

GlobalPost

Michael Moran is foreign affairs columnist for GlobalPost and wrote one of the very first pieces ever published by the site when it launched in January 2009. He is also vice president, global risk analysis, for Control Risks, an international political, security and integrity risk consultancy.

Moran formerly served as director and editor-in-chief of Renaissance Insights, an initiative of the investment bank Renaissance Capital, headquartered in Moscow. He is author of "The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power", and a co-author of "The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution".

Before joining Control Risks, Moran was executive editor and chief of geostrategic analysis at Roubini Global Economics in New York, and spent four years leading digital strategy at the Council on Foreign Relations as executive editor of CFR.org between 2005-2009, winning a series of Emmy and Overseas Press Club awards for CFR with his "Crisis Guides" series.

Throughout his journalistic career, which included correspondent posts for the BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as the head of international news and a columnist for MSNBC.com, Moran has covered the revolutions, elections and other events that have shaped our times. He was also an adjunct professor of international affairs at Bard College (2003-2001), a member of the communications advisory board of Human Rights Watch and a former board member of the Overseas Press Club. He lives in Hoboken, NJ.

How World War I made combat even more terrible

Analysis: The 'Great War' introduced mechanized technology and the soulless calculus of attrition into warfare.

How World War I made combat even more terrible

Duplicity’s Child: How British promises sowed the seeds of today’s Israel-Palestine bloodshed

Duplicity’s Child: How British promises sowed the seeds of today’s Israel-Palestine bloodshed

What the Iraq mess means for oil

What the Iraq mess means for oil

Why Europe’s new anti-EU parliament will vex America

Why Europe’s new anti-EU parliament will vex America

A Russian invasion: Normandy is next

A Russian invasion: Normandy is next

This is why Nigeria’s large military is no match for violent zealots

History, poor equipment and inexperience hamper the country’s army.

This is why Nigeria’s large military is no match for violent zealots

Here's how Florida shrimpers get skewered by Obama's trans-Pacific trade pact

The local shrimping industry is already losing out to Asia.

Here's how Florida shrimpers get skewered by Obama's trans-Pacific trade pact

Why is the Obama administration siding with Argentina against US bondholders?

NML Capital has struggled for years to get Argentina to pay up. The US assistant attorney general may have just placed a new hurdle.

Why is the Obama administration siding with Argentina against US bondholders?

These are the largest infrastructure projects in the Western Hemisphere

Some of them will surprise you.

These are the largest infrastructure projects in the Western Hemisphere

Cuba says ‘investors welcome,’ but the investors aren’t buying

The island's new investment law offers inducements, but no guarantees.

Cuba says ‘investors welcome,’ but the investors aren’t buying

Here's why the US and Russia would be MAD to go to war

A look at the nuclear warheads that guarantee our 'mutually assured destruction.'

Here's why the US and Russia would be MAD to go to war

Venezuela’s government is sinking in a sea of oil

It has nearly as much crude reserves as the US and Saudi Arabia combined. So how come Venezuela's oil production and exports are slipping and the public is raging in the streets?

Venezuela’s government is sinking in a sea of oil

Why the world is worrying about this not-so-precious metal

Trading near historic lows, copper augers more trouble for emerging markets.

Why the world is worrying about this not-so-precious metal

Banking on pain for Russia’s banks

Talk of Western sanctions has Russian oligarchs worried.

Banking on pain for Russia’s banks

Why a Crimean enclave is just saving up trouble

Splitting off non-contiguous territories has been a surefire prescription for violence.

Why a Crimean enclave is just saving up trouble