The Beat New resources on organised crime There are some interesting new resources out on organised crime. The Global Initiative has created a framework (PDF) for how national development actors can analyse and more effectively …
Military interpretations of ‘landscape’ conventionally include notions of strategy, control and domination. They also include environmental factors that might impact Defence’s readiness to carry out conventional military tasks as well as environmental protection from the …
Seventeen billion dollars will be needed to directly replace critical infrastructure between 2015 and 2050 due to the impact of natural disasters in Australia. That’s a key finding of this month’s report from the Australian …
The Beat Documentary: counterfeiting US dollars in Peru Vice has published a 20 minute documentary that examines the underground US dollar counterfeit business in Peru—the current world leader at producing fake US currency. The doco …
The Beat OECD anti-bribery meeting held in Paris The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development held an Anti-Bribery Ministerial Meeting in Paris on 16 March. The OECD released a short paper to mark the occasion, …