This working paper examines illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions, shedding light on their scale, drivers, and consequences. Covering ten countries – Albania, Mon...

This paper examines how illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions have surged in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using trade and econometric analysis, it es...

On 22 October 2025, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Russian company...

The article first appeared in Just Security.Cover photo: CanvaU.S. President Donald Trump declared that Europe must stop buying Russian...

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The European Union has identified Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) as a primary security threat, defining it as the strategic use of disinformation to exploit social divisions ...

The report exposes how Russia has entrenched itself in Cuba and Nicaragua and leveraged them as gateways to project influence across the region. Through economic entanglements, media disinformation, a...

Conflict Entrepreneurs. The once great democratic hope that the commercial internet promised to be has left early evangelists unrecognising what they...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine marked a turning point in Europe’s energy and climate security, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the EU’s energy systems. This report introduces the updated ...

The analysis uncovers how Russia uses trade, investment, media, and covert intelligence networks to expand its footprint in Latin America’s second-largest economy. Positioned at the crossroads of Nort...

The analysis uncovers how Russia uses trade, investment, media, and covert intelligence networks to expand its footprint in Latin America’s second-largest economy. Positioned at the crossroads of Nort...

Nearly four years after Europe’s energy crisis erupted in late 2021, the continent has moved from emergency response to system redesign. But the European Union is not out of the woods. Deep vulnerabilities persist, and progress toward clean, secure and affordable supply is highly uneven across the continent.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine marked a turning point in Europe’s energy and climate security, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the EU’s energy systems. This report introduces the updated ...

Launch of Hidden Trade Routes: uncovering how illicit networks drive sanctions evasion, distort economies & threaten global governance.

Bulgaria’s accession to the eurozone exposes the country to potential price pressures, where rapid income growth and inflation expectations can mutually reinforce one another. Neutralizing this risk r...

The global effort to fight financial crime and corruption increasingly depends on understanding the concept of illicit financial flows, or IFFs. It is...

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In the quiet corridors of cyberspace, a new kind of threat is taking shape. It’s not about ransomware or credit card theft. It’s not even about spying...

More than one way to win a war. The cognitive domain is the source and the homeland for understanding the global threat environment, the values worth...