Turkey: Ottoman about town

Also: Israel, Lebanon, North Korea, The Philippines, and Solomon Islands.

A Mamelouk or Cairo in Egypt, copperplate engraving, from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, 1818, London.

In addition to our daily risk monitoring brief, the team behind Geopolitical Dispatch also provides advice, risk audits, scenario planning, executive masterclasses and board briefi…