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This report focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs in North Korea, Iran and Russia, identifying the challenges of implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls.

This report provides an assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of Dutch air and space power, and recommendations for how to optimise its contribution to the Dutch Joint Force and to wider NATO deterrence and warfighting capabilities.

This report examines the trade in Russian enriched uranium.

The second in a series of site profiles examines a new building in the Hamhung Area in North Korea.

This report details Russia’s unconventional military activities outside Ukraine, including efforts to prepare for destabilisation in European countries, expeditionary operations in Africa to seize control of critical resources, and outreach to target audiences in the Middle East.

Interdependent human–machine teams will be a key component of future Western efforts to deter great power war and, if deterrence fails, win.

Russian defences and military adaptations pose challenges for Ukraine's 2023 offensive.

This guide is designed to provide a standardised approach to assessing financial crime risk within the cryptocurrency industry. It documents observed and emerging risks to allow institutions to identify high-risk activities and determine strategies to tackle such risks.

While governments have a role to play in setting the regulatory and legal landscape to fight proliferation finance, they need the cooperation of the private sector to achieve an effective global counterproliferation finance framework. Thus the private sector, including financial institutions, has an essential role in identifying activities that may be suspicious, alerting relevant authorities, freezing assets and implementing financial sanctions. This guide is designed to provide multi-jurisdictional support to the private sector in identifying activities that may be higher risk, determining the levels of risks the sector faces, and developing strategies to tackle such risks.

Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine.

The first in a series of site profiles examines the Ponghwa Chemical Factory in North Korea.

The war in Ukraine has underlined the need to enhance the safety and security of nuclear power plants in war zones.

This paper aims to serve as a guide to policymakers by examining different approaches to cyber-security policy, regulation and legislation. It provides an overview of the priorities of five countries (the UK, the US, Canada, Japan, and Singapore) and the EU. The focus rests on cyber policy advanced in the period between January 2019 and March 2023.

An early analysis of the evidence sheds light on Russia's unconventional operations in its war against Ukraine.

Russia's nuclear energy exports continue to expand, even as its overall economy bears the brunt of Western sanctions.

Over the course of 2022, barely a week passed without missile tests, military parades or other dramatic developments on the Korean peninsula. Neither lockdowns nor the plight of the North Korean population slowed Pyongyang’s aggressive missile testing campaign or its pursuit of nuclear weapons. This Special Resource takes you through some of the the visual evidence of these developments that were tracked throughout the year.