Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America
IASC Fellow Douglas Farah examines the emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal and terrorist franchises in Latin America, and the threat they pose to U.S. security interests.
Convergence: Fixers, Super Fixers and Shadow Facilitators
IASC Senior Fellow Douglas Farah takes you inside the social networks that operate within illicit commodity chains, and their importance to functioning of transnational criminial enterprises in this chapter of the book Convergence: Illicit Networks in the Age of Globalization, published by the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University.
China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach
China's rise to global economic and strategic eminence, with the potential for achieving pre-eminence in the greater-Asian region, is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War period. For students contemplating a broad range of business, social science, journalist or military science curricula, it is critical to possess a basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a Rising China. Read More...
Merchant of Death
IASC Senior Fellow Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way mondern warfare is fought.
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Cristinanomics: Argentina’s crazy plan to save the economy through money laundering
June 4th, 2013
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has hit on a novel way to try to alleviate her self-inflicted economic free fall and acute shortage of hard currency -- invite money launderers from around the world to put their dollars in Argentine banks with no questions asked. That's not, of course, the official plan. But this month's move is the latest in a series of steps that seem more rooted in magical thinking than in economic reality that have pushed Argentina ever closer to financial ruin and international pariah status.
Weakening U.S. presence encourages Chinese aggression
May 28th, 2013
As the Obama administration descends into a long summer of scandal investigations, its domestic weakness could serve to exacerbate long-standing Asian political fault lines that heretofore were calmed by the assurance of American strength.
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