Flush with cash from North America’s drug markets, and armed by guns smuggled from the United States, drug trafficking gangs have unleashed a wave of violence in the Caribbean.

Trans-national criminal networks are becoming entrenched in Cambodia, posing new trafficking, fraud, and governance threats throughout the region and even globally.

A civil war in the powerful Sinaloa Cartel has unleashed a wave of brutal violence across Mexico, and more violence could be in store for US cities as longstanding narcotic supply chains fracture.

Costa Rica is faced with a growing security crisis, and how it ultimately responds to the cartel violence will be a crucial test for one of the strongest democracies in Central America.

The discovery of ephedra plants in Afghanistan and a booming end-user market in the Gulf States is fueling a growing drug crisis across the Middle East.

Syria has ramped up captagon production in the post-civil war period, with destabilizing consequences for the region and, gradually, the regime itself.

Spiking cartel violence has spilled onto the campaign trail, leading some organizations to classify Mexico as a high-risk country.

Now over half a century since the War on Drugs was launched, has the broader campaign against the cartels become a forever war in Ecuador?

US-China cooperation on fentanyl precursor chemicals has proven effective in the past; however, it has become a geopolitical casualty as relations sour between Washington and Beijing.

Ad hoc policy responses on either side of the US border are frequently powerless in the face of the geopolitical, economic, and political forces fueling the rise of organized crime in Mexico.