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With Porous Borders and Endemic Corruption, Can Syria Mitigate the Captagon Threat?

Authored by Dr. Mahmut Cengiz in Homeland Security Today. May 30, 2023…

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Hezbollah’s Global Networks and Latin American Cocaine Trade

Authored by Dr. Mahmut Cengiz and Dr. Camilo Pardo for the Small Wars Journal. April 25, 2023.…

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Corruption Drug Trafficking Transnational Organized Crime

Cocaine Networks Merge with Fentanyl Trafficking Between the Middle East and Central America

Authored by Dr. Mahmut Cengiz in Homeland Security Today. April 12, 2023…

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Back to the Past: How Taliban Rule Has Wiped Out Afghanistan’s Gains and Provided Haven for Terrorists

Authored by Dr. Mahmut Cengiz and Asma Durrani in Homeland Security Today. Published October 31, 2022.…

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Transnational Crime During a Pandemic – How Criminals Are Capitalizing on the Chaos Caused by COVID-19

Authored by Dr. Louise Shelley, Dr. Layla Hashemi, and Sarah Meo. Chapter of A World Emerging from Pandemic: Implication for Intelligence and National Security, edited by Stacey E. Pollard and Lawrence A. Kuznar. Published by NI Press, Spring 2022. …

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The Dark Side of Illicit
Economies and TBML:
Free Trade Zones, Ports,
and Financial Safe Havens

Co-authored by David Luna, Executive Director of the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies. June 13, 2022. …