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SITUATION UPDATE BRIEF – Increased Media Restrictions to Drive Long-Term Governance Concerns
Key Takeaways • The spread of Covid-19 has provided leaders in numerous countries in the region an opportunity to enhance...
SPECIAL REPORT – The Levant: Covid-19, Economic Uncertainty and Domestic Unrest
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Middle East, and Levant in particular, has been consistently volatile in recent months with protests triggered by...
SPECIAL REPORT: Right-wing Extremism Trends in Europe
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Latent threat from right-wing extremists has become increasingly more visible in Western Europe in recent years, with...
Europe and the Pandemic: Considerations under the “New Normal”
Amid the ongoing discussions surrounding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Europe, we take a look at some of...
PODCAST: NO LOCKDOWN HERE – COVID & FINANCIAL CRIME
Our COO Tamara Makarenko has a conversation with leading financial crime experts Samantha Sheen and Payal Patel, about the impact...
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: A NON-COVID WEEKLY UPDATE
Developments this week highlight the endurance of Islamist insurgencies in the Philippines and Burkina Faso, sustaining the risk of attacks...
SITUATION UPDATE BRIEF – EAST ASIA: COVID-19 OUTBREAK PRECIPITATES DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING, DRIVING SECURITY, COMPLIANCE AND REPUTATION RISKS
Key Takeaways While South Korea has affirmed its status as a regional democratic bastion by holding a free and fair...
SPECIAL REPORT: NORTH AFRICA
COVID-19, FOOD INSECURITY AND DOMESTIC UNREST IN NORTH AFRICA North Africa already suffers from elevated levels of anti-government sentiment, largely...
AFTER THE VIRUS – LEADERSHIP LESSONS
Three renowned global security leaders share their insights on how to be prepared to emerge from the disruption of COVID,...
SITUATION UPDATE BRIEF: CYBER
Governments exploit COVID-19 to enhance surveillance capabilities. Growing numbers of reports in recent weeks indicate that the governments of China, the...
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: A NON-COVID WEEKLY UPDATE
In France, the persistent risk of rudimentary terrorist attacks was demonstrated this week by a fatal stabbing, while in Colombia,...
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: A NON-COVID UPDATE
Tit-for-tat punitive actions between the US and both China and Iran are set to continue, though any direct physical confrontation...
BUSINESSES FORCED TO CLOSE AMID LOCKDOWN MEASURES, DRIVING UNCERTAINTY
On 23 March the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a series of new stringent containment measures that essentially put...
COVID-19 AFTER THE VIRUS
Introduction Although the Covid-19 virus continues to spread in Western Europe and the US, operational responses are largely in place...
AFTER THE VIRUS – WHAT NEXT?
Do you want to know about squiggle theory, why W matters to U, the VERUCA world, why Belarus matters, and...
What You May Have Missed: A Non-Covid Update
The threat of disruptive social unrest remains elevated in India and Chile, following protests in their respective capitals in recent...
GUYANA: POLITICAL INSTABILITY TO SUSTAIN POLICY RISK FOR OIL COMPANIES
On 12 March, a partial vote recount of the ballots casted in the Region Four on the 2 March general...
ATTACK ON IRAQI BASE RE-ESCALATES TENSIONS AMID GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY
On 11 March, roughly 18 Katyusha rockets struck the al-Taji military base, roughly 35 km north of Baghdad, which hosts...
