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Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World
Shaxson, Nicholas, 2012
Global economics and politics
Book

A readable account of the offshore system: what tax havens are, how they grew and who benefits. It explains the plumbing that most illicit trade investigations eventually…
Somalia: Economy without State
Little, Peter D., 2003
Global economics and politics
Book

How Somalia’s economy kept working, and in places grew, without a central government: livestock exports, remittances and trade networks that run on trust and clan. It…
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Nordstrom, Carolyn, 2007
Global economics and politics
Book

An anthropologist follows smuggled goods and money across borders, from African ports to European markets, and shows how illegal trade shapes economics and politics along…
Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism
Findley, Michael G., Daniel L. Nielson, and J. C. Sharman, 2014
Financial crime and illicit networks
Book

An experimental study of how easy it is to set up an anonymous shell company. The authors posed as consultants and approached nearly 4,000 corporate service providers in…
Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future
Shelley, Louise I., 2020
Financial crime and illicit networks
Book

An account of how technology changed illicit trade, from drugs and people to wildlife and cybercrime. Shelley shows how these markets connect to each other and how digital…
Understanding Terrorist Finance
Wittig, Timothy, 2011
Financial crime and illicit networks
Book

A framework for analysing terrorist finance that dispels the popular myths about how groups get and use money. Wittig shows that terrorists work through everyday economic…
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Hopkirk, Peter, 2006
Geopolitics and strategy
Book

The nineteenth-century contest between Britain and Russia for Central Asia, told through the officers and explorers who fought it. It is the background to borders…
The New Rules of War: How America Can Win Against Russia, China, and Other Threats
McFate, Sean, 2020
Geopolitics and strategy
Book

How war has changed in the twenty-first century and why conventional doctrine keeps losing to it. McFate’s “durable disorder”, in which states, mercenaries and criminal…
OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information
Bazzell, Michael, 2024
OSINT and digital investigation
Book

The standard practical reference for finding and analysing publicly available information: search methods, social media, virtual machines, custom tools, documentation and…
Oil and Water
C4ADS, 2025
Reports and papers
Report

An investigation into the largest known dark fleet run by a single network: at least 56 supertankers carrying Iranian, Venezuelan and later Russian crude to China, using…
Safety and Shipping Review 2026
Allianz Commercial, 2026
Reports and papers
Report

The annual review of ship losses, casualties and emerging risks from one of the largest marine insurers. It is where the shadow fleet, GNSS interference and port congestion…
European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2025: The changing DNA of serious and organised crime
Europol, 2025
Reports and papers
Report

Europol’s four-yearly assessment of organised crime in the EU: the criminal markets, how networks are organised and what is changing, with a strong section on logistics and…
Global Organized Crime Index 2025
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2025
Reports and papers
Report

Scores for 193 countries on criminal markets, criminal actors and resilience, with the methodology published and the data downloadable. The fastest way to get oriented on a…
Maritime Activities Observed Through Open-Access Positioning Data: Moving and Stationary Vessels in the Baltic Sea
Hütten, Moritz, 2025
Reports and papers
Document

A study that rebuilt Baltic Sea vessel activity from open AIS data alone and came within about 20 percent of results from proprietary data. It is the best evidence we have…
Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations: A Practical Guide on the Effective Use of Digital Open Source Information in Investigating Violations of International Criminal, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2022
Reports and papers
Document

The standard for open source investigations that need to stand up to legal scrutiny: principles, methods, preservation and verification, and the ethics of handling material.…
Unsafe by Design?: A First Look at Security and Privacy Risks in OpenAI’s Custom GPT Ecosystem
Ogundoyin, Sunday Oyinlola, Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, and Dali Kaafar, 2025
Reports and papers
Article

An analysis of 14,904 custom GPTs that found most lacked basic protections: system prompts leak, roleplay and phishing attacks succeed, and the marketplace does little about…
RUSI Maritime Sanctions Taskforce: Insurance and Flag States
Royal United Services Institute, Centre for Finance and Security, 2025
Reports and papers
Report

Findings from the taskforce’s May 2025 meeting of about sixty government and industry members on Russia’s shadow fleet: what insurers can do, how to hold flag states to…
AIS Handbook
UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics, AIS Task Team, 2020
Reports and papers
Document

A method handbook for working with AIS data: what the messages contain, how to clean them, how to derive port calls and voyages, and the pitfalls. Written for statisticians…
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Mathews, Gordon, 2011
Wider reading
Book

An ethnography of one building in Hong Kong where traders from South Asia and Africa buy phones and clothes to carry home. It is the best short account we know of low-end…
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Hao, Karen, 2025
Wider reading
Book

A reporter’s account of OpenAI and the race for AI dominance, including the labour in the Global South and the environmental cost behind the products. Useful background for…
The Shadow of the Sun
Kapuściński, Ryszard, 2002
Wider reading
Book

Forty years of reporting from across Africa, from independence to the 1990s, by a Polish correspondent who travelled poor and listened. It teaches how to see a place before…
Rhetoric and Governance under Trump: Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit
Kaussler, Bernd, Lars J. Kristiansen, and Jeffrey Delbert, 2020
Wider reading
Book

An academic study of how rhetoric shaped governance during the first Trump administration, and what it did to institutions. We include it because the language of power is…
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