The Rise of Transnational Organized Crime: How Criminal Networks Are Reshaping Global Politics and Security
The Global Institute for Strategic Studies (GISS) Transnational organized crime has evolved into one of the most significant and complex global security threats of the twenty-first century. No longer confined to isolated criminal groups operating within national borders, modern organized crime networks now function as highly adaptive transnational systems interconnected with politics, war economies, […]
United States’ New Ambitions for Indo-Pacific Security
Six years since the launch of its strategy for a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’, the new US administration outlined how its strategy will evolve amid Sino-US strategic competition, as well as conflicts in Europe and the Middle East.
The proliferation of AI-enabled military technology in the Middle East
The Israel–Hamas war of May 2021 was described in the Israeli press as ‘the world’s first AI war’, integrating a number of new artificial intelligence (AI) systems into military technologies, from new target-identification processes to enhanced weaponry. Since then, the integration of AI into military technologies has progressed in leaps and bounds, with countries across […]