Significant improvements in the security environment are likely in Colombia, where, barring significant delays, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) militant group is expected to demobilise in the first half of the year.
Asia Pacific analysts, Mandira Bagwandeen and Ashleigh Somaroo, discuss the key risks and trends over 2017. Various threats to Chinese investment, driven by the ‘One-Belt, One Road' (OBOR) development strategy, are on the horizon while regional tensions look set to rise. Specifically, China-Taiwan, inter-Korean and India-Pakistan relations are likely…
Asia Pacific analysts, Mandira Bagwandeen and Ashleigh Somaroo, look at the key policy issues that are likely to impact kidnapping and extortion in the region. In the Philippines, the government's crackdown on the country's illegal drug trade is being undermined by police-led extortion. In India, President Narendra Modi's administration is seeking…
Julian Karssen and Francesca Fazey discuss the potential for the Islamic State militant group to revive its kidnapping operations in broader Iraq in the wake of recent territorial losses.
Francesca Fazey assesses the increase in wrongful detentions in Egypt over 2016 and the implications for foreign nationals going into 2017, notably journalists and NGO workers.
A severe economic crisis and intensifying organised crime turf war in Rio de Janeiro are likely to drive a further deterioration in the city's security environment, writes Lloyd Belton.
The Trump administration's contradictory positions on the conflict in eastern Ukraine may aggravate an already volatile situation, writes Saif Islam.