Volatile. Unpredictable. Risky. Challenging. These are just a few of the words business leaders use to describe the current political environment in a recent survey on managing political risk that EY conducted. To strategize and ultimately to act, executives need to understand the deeper forces at work in this transformative age of geopolitics. It is imperative to go beyond the headlines to understand how the primary interconnected forces of change impact the geopolitical environment in which companies must navigate. In this outlook, EY dives into these primary forces of change and look at how they are unfolding, geopolitically, around the world in 2020. EY analyzes how emerging shifts in globalization, technology, demographics and the environment affect geopolitics and, ultimately, how these shifts are changing the reality in the key markets in which businesses operate.