States are increasingly outsourcing clandestine and covert tasks to organised criminal actors. In this RUSI Journal article, these relationships are mapped and a state-domain matrix for analysing…

In the last decade, states have faced a rising tide of hostile activities from other states and their proxies, often referred to as ‘state threats’. In a series of SOC ACE supported workshops in 2023,...

This research analyses the impact of whistleblower reward programmes and scrutinises whether the concerns that have been raised regarding their implementation have eventuated in practice. Furthermore,...

Royal United Services Institute says scheme would reduce those who take information to US agencies

Liberal democracies can use financial intelligence to counter foreign interference.

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It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and ...

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Intellectual nourishment, now available for hungry minds.

Reporting on alleged assaults – including against a 15-year-old – were suppressed by legal threats, Parliament heard

If the fight for trust is “the battle that defines our age”, as the Prime Minister has said, it is a battle Westminster is losing.

This research analyses the impact of whistleblower reward programmes and scrutinises whether the concerns that have been raised regarding their implementation have eventuated in practice. Furthermore,...

The criminal groups that control large parts of #Haiti have been intensifying their attacks against the population in recent weeks. This has included subjecting girls and women to horrific sexual abus...

Exposing the influence of today’s ultra-rich, from Barclays to Bezos

Convert Bluesky threads into shareable web pages.

Lurking among us are anonymous heroes who quietly amplify social cohesion. Here's what we can learn from them.