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Jason Jarrell 
As the world's economies grow more interdependent, public affairs is crossing borders it has never reached before, and practitioners find themselves negotiating rather unfamiliar terrain. In the Journal of Public Affairs, Fruzsina M. Harsanyi and Susan Schmidt provide a compass for executives who find themselves in foreign territory.
For a law that's been on the books since 1977, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) remains the source of a great deal of confusion and debate. According to a recent Washington Post article, many companies are still having trouble interpreting the law, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is lobbying to have it clarified and its restrictions eased.
Company managers who work abroad, and who are accountable for international public affairs, often have little or no training in the field, according to findings in the Council's newly released 2010-2011 International Public Affairs Benchmarking Report. The report contains findings on the role of the country manager, the typical staffing profile, and other elements of the global public affairs organization from a survey of 61 public affairs executives during the spring and summer of 2010.
The world faces even greater political volatility than in
the immediate aftermath of 9-11, but the nature of this volatility is almost
going unnoticed, according to Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a
leading global political risk and research consulting firm.
