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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La Cámpora in Argentina
May 13th, 2013
The rise and growing influence of La Cámpora, is among the least understood but most important aspects of the Fernández de Kirchner’s government, with direct ties back to the turbulent and violent “dirty war” between the Montonero Marxists guerillas and successive dictatorships in the 1970s. In acknowledgement of their absolute loyalty to her, the president fondly refers to the Camporistas as her “little soldiers.” Rather than reporting through normal cabinet chains of command, its leaders respond only to the president and Máximo, operating as a parallel power structure and severely undermining the institutional oversight of their actions.
Pipeline Politics: Is Puting Running Out of Gas?
May 27th, 2013
The Cold War is now so over that it might as well be grouped with the ancient ice ages, but there is one echo rolling across Europe from East to West: the Russian attempt to dominate the natural gas market on the European continent. As the energy sector accounts for 25 percent of Russia’s economy, any large changes in energy markets present major challenges for Vladimir Putin. Those old enough to recall the Soviet gas pipeline controversy of the early 1980s—a high-profile fight of the Reagan administration to deprive Moscow of hard currency—are right to have a feeling of déjà vu, as Putin’s motives transcend honest commerce.
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