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A Research Article drawing on fieldwork across Europe to examine how organised crime embeds itself in legal economies and institutions, exposing vulnerabilities across current policy approaches.

A Research Article arguing that organised crime is underweighted in UK intelligence prioritisation processes despite its centrality to hostile-state operations, reframing the issue as a core component of the national security landscape.

Jennifer Scotland reviews Criminality, Political Power and Conflict: Critical Perspectives, edited by José Antonio Gutiérrez and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín.

Based on experience in northern Nigeria, a Professional Insight examining the shifting nexus between organised crime and ideology, and the implications for traditional understandings of these concepts.

Authors from policing, academic and think tank backgrounds team up on a Professional Insight examining how fast-paced technological change has transformed digital crime from a niche issue to a national security problem.

The former executive director of Police Services at Interpol offers a Professional Insight arguing that intergovernmental law enforcement is constrained by structural misalignment.

A photo essay following the path of a member of the modern ’ndrangheta as he leverages global markets from Düsseldorf to Melbourne while preserving social authority linked to his Calabrian heritage.

Based on direct field observations, a Professional Insight illustrating how scam compounds fuse digital, physical, financial and political threats within a single, highly integrated operational ecosystem.

A Professional Insight drawing on field experience to illustrate the ongoing strategic shift among criminal networks towards illicit trade in legal commodities.

A Professional Insight analysing emerging forms of criminal convergence and drawing on academic efforts to map the new global geography of cybercrime.

A Research Article exploring the politics of criminal governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, warning of the risks posed by hardening domestic and regional responses.

Kevin Rowlands, Editor of the RUSI Journal, shares his take for Volume 171 Issue 3.

Sarah Chapman Trim reviews AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex, by Anthony King.

Beatrice Heuser reviews Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West, by Kristan Stoddart.

Written before the recent conflict in the Middle East, this research article investigates Hezbollah, disarmament and Lebanon State Authority after the post-2024 ceasefire era

The world of intelligence is faced with the prospect of information overload; in this research article the author sets out the need for new analytical techniques.