Cities & Illicit Economies, SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 6

Western Cape gang monitor

...In the past quarter, South Africa has faced national-level scandals relating to policing, corruption and organized crime. At the provincial level in the Western Cape, things have been no less turbulen...

Posted on 08 Sep 2025

Global Initiative

Unregulated fentanyl in North America: A trilateral perspective

Unregulated fentanyl in North America

...More than 1.1 million people in the United States have died from opioid overdoses since 2000. In Canada, over 50,000 lives have been lost to opioid-related overdoses since 2016. Meanwhile, in Mexico, ...

Posted on 04 Sep 2025

Author(s): Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Jason Eligh

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Sethasiri Tienpiragul

...Dr Sethasiri Tienpiragul is a legal scholar and public prosecutor based in Thailand. She has degrees from Durham University, and a PhD from Thammasat University in Thailand, focusing on the applicatio...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

APA-Obs

Sex creation in the digital era

...The adult content industry has undergone a dramatic transformation in the digital era. Online content platforms such as OnlyFans and Fansly have made it easier for individuals to produce, distribute a...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

Author(s): Sethasiri Tienpiragul

11 Sep

SEE-Obs

Integrity and independence of the judiciary and anti-corruption bodies in the Western Balkans

...The credibility of democratic institutions in the Western Balkans relies heavily on an independent judiciary and effective anti-corruption bodies. While legal frameworks guaranteeing independence are ...

Posted on 02 Sep 2025
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Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz

Senior Researcher, Asser Institute for International and European Law

...Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz is a senior researcher in international law at the Asser Institute for International and European Law, and supervisor of the International Law Clinic on Access to Justice f...

Posted on 01 Sep 2025

WEA-Obs

What do two recent incidents reveal about Guinea-Bissau’s cocaine politics?

A murder and a shooting

...Guinea-Bissau has long been a central cog in the international cocaine trafficking system. Between 2005 and 2007, consignments of cocaine that had washed up on the country’s beaches was used to pain...

Posted on 29 Aug 2025

EAS-Obs

High-level corruption and state capture in the South Caucasus

Shadow states

...Over the last 35 years, the South Caucasus has undergone profound economic and geopolitical transformations. Yet beneath these changes, certain systems of governance have persisted, cultivating and en...

Posted on 28 Aug 2025

Author(s): Liam O’Shea

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Liam O’Shea

...Dr Liam O’Shea is a political and security analyst specializing in anti-corruption, security sector reform and the politics of institutional change, with expertise in Eurasia. He has led projects on...

Posted on 27 Aug 2025

APA-Obs

Scam empire strikes back: Crackdowns on Myanmar’s scam industry have had little material impact

...The Wang Xing incident – where a  Chinese influencer was trafficked into and held hostage in multiple scam compounds on the Myanmar–Thailand border in early 2025 – attracted widespread attentio...

Posted on 27 Aug 2025

Author(s): Jason G Tower

Global Initiative

Organized crime in detention

...Prison reform has become increasingly urgent, at a time when the link between the criminal justice system's shortcomings and organized crime has become more apparent. With approximately 11.5 million p...

Posted on 25 Aug 2025

Author(s): Ioana Vasi

02 Sep

SEE-Obs, WEA-Obs

Under the radar: Western Balkans’ cocaine operations in West Africa

Under the radar

...Since 2019, some of the world’s most dangerous and sophisticated organized crime groups, rooted in the Western Balkans, but also major players in drug markets across Europe and Latin America, have e...

Posted on 25 Aug 2025

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Sasa Djordjevic, Fatjona Mejdini

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