West Africa 2022: Coups, Contracts, and Criminal Governance ARCON – Series on Corruption, Crime and Harm Networks A publication by SciVortex Corp.

Russia 2012: State Corporations, Siloviki, and the Anatomy of Controlled Corruption

Turkey 2000: Corruption and the Rise of Organized Crime in the Political Landscape

Southeast Asia 2016: Governance by Contract and the Rise of Regional Protection Networks

Philippines 2014: The War on Drugs, Corruption, and Human Rights Violations

Turkey 2003: Political Crisis, State Corruption, and the Expansion of Transnational Crime Networks

Turkey 2001: The Role of Political Elites in Drug Smuggling and Crime Networks

Philippines 2001: Corruption and the Link Between Political Elites and Criminal Networks

Philippines 2000: The Rise of Corruption and Crime in the Post-Estrada Era

North Korea 2010: Illicit Networks, Sanctions Evasion, and the Politics of Isolation

North Africa 2017: Reform Rhetoric and the Reinvention of State Corruption

Oceania 2018: The Dark Side of the Pacific: Human Trafficking and Forced Labor Networks in Fiji and Solomon Islands

Oceania 2021: The Rise of Illicit Mining and Environmental Destruction in Papua New Guinea

Caribbean 2000: Drug Trade, Corruption, and Political Influence in the Dominican Republic

Oceania 2022: Corruption and the Role of International Corporate Influence in Australia’s Mining Sector

Eastern Europe 2000: Transition, Trafficking, and the Capture of Emerging Institutions

East Asia 2008: Global Markets, Elite Networks, and the Blind Spots of Accountability

East Africa 2013: Development Aid, Shadow Bureaucracies, and the Inversion of Accountability

Middle East 1999: The Rise of State-Controlled Networks and Corruption in the Aftermath of the Gulf War

Eastern Europe 2018: Populism, EU Funds, and the Strategic Capture of Democratic Institutions

Middle East 2003: The Invasion of Iraq, the Fragmentation of Institutions, and the Empowerment of Criminal Networks

Golden Triangle 2023: The Resurgence of Drug Trade and Corruption in Myanmar’s Shan State

Golden Triangle 2015: Military-Industrial Complex and the Expansion of Criminal Networks in the Myanmar-Lao Border Area

Middle East 2002: Weapons, Oil, and the Shadow Networks Enabling State Corruption

Golden Triangle 2002: The Role of Corruption in the Cross-Border Heroin Trade Between Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar

DRC 2013: The Exploitation of Congo’s Oil Reserves: Corruption and Environmental Damage

DRC 2015: Armed Groups, Corruption, and the Exploitation of Natural Resources in Eastern Congo

Central Asia 2015: Border Control, Drugs, and the Weaponization of Governance in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

DRC 2000: The Role of State and Corporate Corruption in the Expansion of Conflict Diamonds

Colombia 2000: Drug Cartels, Institutional Paralysis, and the Forgotten Victims of a Captured State

Colombia (Late 1990s): Legal Shells and Criminal Deals in the Wake of Crisis

Central Asia 2010: Political Repression, Resource Capture, and the Expansion of Criminal Networks in Turkmenistan

Caribbean 2001: Money Laundering, Elite Networks, and the Power of Corruption in the Bahamas

Central Africa 2016: Security Rents and the Weaponization of State Institutions

Triángulo Norte 2013: Fragmented States, Unified Harm

In 2001, Venezuela used emergency decrees to build parallel bureaucracies, bypass oversight, and entrench political patronage.

In 2000, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution masked the rise of a criminalized petro-state. ARCON reveals how public institutions were reshaped to serve political loyalty, PDVSA became a tool for illicit contracts, and oversight was neutralized under revolutionary rhetoric. Judges, engineers, and indigenous communities faced strategic marginalization. Corruption was not incidental—it was structurally embedded in the state’s redesign.

In 2013, Guatemala’s elites enabled a criminal ecosystem rooted in politics, shielding drug trafficking, extortion, and human trafficking. ARCON reveals how state institutions were co-opted to protect illicit networks. Judges blocked investigations, police protected traffickers, and ministries legalized corruption. Marginalized communities suffered violence, exploitation, and systemic abandonment under elite-driven impunity.

Corruption enabled illegal logging in Peru (2002), displacing Indigenous communities and devastating the Amazon rainforest.

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In 2022, Central Asia’s “neutrality” masked elite corruption, silenced dissent, and enabled institutional cover for energy-driven abuse.

In 2022, Russia turned sanctions into strategy—militarizing corruption, rerouting capital, and silencing victims through legality.

In 2013, drug cartels expanded across Peru, fueled by state corruption, displacing communities and deepening the cocaine economy.

Corruption enabled illegal logging in Peru (2002), displacing Indigenous communities and devastating the Amazon rainforest.

In 2008, China masked elite corruption and corporate harm behind Olympic spectacle, using state power to silence dissent and shield abuse.

Technocratic outsourcing in Chile & Argentina (2013) enabled hidden corruption, harming communities under a veil of reform.