DA4601 Threat Financing

The topic of threat finance covers a range of actors – including terrorists, insurgents, organized crime groups, hostile states, kleptocracies, and near-peer competitors – and how these various entities raise funds, move funds, and spend those funds for nefarious purposes. This class will explore examples of each of these actors as well as how their activities exploit issues like corruption, transborder smuggling, shadow economies, ungoverned spaces, resource scarcity, technological advances (e.g. cryptocurrencies), money laundering, and climate-driven conflict.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Understand financial domains of our adversaries and how they raise, move, store and spend funds.
• Understand the range of those adversaries, from terrorists to peer state competitors.
• Understand the financial context, to include, corruption, smuggling, ungoverned spaces.
• Understand current and likely future trends that impact threat finance (e.g. cryptocurrencies, resource scarcity, climate change).