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Latest assessment: 10 Nov 2026
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Dependence is not the same thing as vulnerability.

We study the difference — in energy systems, in supply corridors, and in the infrastructure that states assume will keep working. Our assessments say how confident we are, and why.

Six bands, three to a side, divided by one line. The two sides do not line up — nor, on this site, do the columns.

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Filed 10 Nov 2026

Online scam issues in Central Asia and what can be learned from the Southeast Asia

Nowadays online scam and its varieties are becoming frequent headaches for not only state authorities and banks but also ordinary citizens of Central Asia and beyond. In today’s globalized realities, Central Asian scam criminal groups have been replicating from Southeast Asian scam industry.

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    The Guarantor Steps Back: the Gulf states after American primacy
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What we study

  • 01
    Energy security and weaponised interdependence
  • 02
    Chokepoints, corridors and the limits of rerouting
  • 03
    The South Caucasus and the Caspian order
  • 04
    Critical infrastructure under hybrid pressure

How we work

Every claim we publish carries a confidence grade and a named source. Where a figure rests on an institution describing its own performance, we say so, and we grade it lower.

That sounds obvious. It is not what the field does. We have traced headline statistics repeated for a decade back to a single official’s magazine article, and re-graded our own conclusions accordingly.

The test we apply

Not how many routes a state holds, but how many of them one adversary can reach.