In a few recent contests the advisers have mirrored geopolitical splits, with pro-Russian candidates seeking strategists in Moscow and those more friendly to the West flying in Americans.For globetrotting spin doctors, breaking into a new market can be tough.
Mr Strauss-Kahn may have the allure of a globetrotting statesman who got the big calls during the recession right, and he is highly regarded at the IMF.
The result was an unequalled body of work, from his string of 1940s classics, including his annual Carnegie Hall concerts, to the landmark performance that ignited the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival and relaunched his career, to his globetrotting during the 1960s and 1970s, which ceased only with his death from cancer in 1974.
They are designed to appeal to a mixture of globetrotting parents and ambitious locals with an eye to a university education in Europe or America for their children.
Founders and investors, already used to entrepreneurial globetrotting, will readily consider moving to another place if it seems to have more to offer.Often that place is America.
The details of Nixon's pre-presidential life the hardscrabble upbringing, the rapid political ascent, the globetrotting vice-presidency are dispatched with efficiency.
There is no guarantee that a new government, or a fresh round of globetrotting, will be enough to lift his miserable poll numbers.
Businesspeople looking to improve their lot are stumping up their own seed money, and so want the best results from the best schools, even if it means globetrotting for their classes.
Globetrotting executives, meanwhile, can subscribe to up-to-the-minute intelligence briefings on global hotspots before they travel.
Picked a few days ago, perhaps in Ecuador, maybe in Japan or Thailand, they were doused in herbicides, driven to an airport and stuck in the belly of a passenger plane, along with the two other great globetrotting perishables of the jet age, sushi and corpses.
