Special Reports
The Impact of Rising Global Energy Prices
Elevated energy prices in 2023 are expected to test global macroeconomic and political stability as the world continues to contend with exogenous shoc...
Quarterly Kidnap & Ransom Report: Q4 2022
AKE's Kidnap and Ransom (K&R) Q4 2022 Special Report contains a selection of key K&R cases, trends and analyses based on AKE’s research on d...
Political Risk Outlook Q4 2022 – Ones to Watch
AKE's Political Risk Outlook Special Report contains a selection of five countries from around the world where the political or economic landscape was...
Sahel – The Sino-Russian quest to unseat France
Rising anti-French sentiment has been evident across the Sahel for several years, leading to increased protests targeting French interests in the regi...
Iran: A Sustained Protest Movement?
On 16 September Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in the custody of the Iranian 'morality police' igniting a wave of protests thr...
Political Risk Outlook Q3 2022 – Ones to Watch
AKE's Political Risk Outlook Special Report contains a selection of five countries from around the world where the political or economic landscape was...
Quarterly Kidnap & Ransom Report: Q3 2023
AKE's Kidnap and Ransom (K&R) Q3 2022 Special Report contains a selection of key K&R cases, trends and analyses based on AKE’s research on d...
AKE Special Report: Replacing Boris
This special report looks at the race to replace UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In the first stage of voting MPs narrowed the field to Foreign Secre...
Quarterly Kidnap & Ransom Report: Q2 2022
AKE's Kidnap and Ransom (K&R) Q2 2022 Special Report contains a selection of key K&R cases, trends and analyses based on AKE’s research on d...Political Risk Outlook Q2 2022 – Ones to Watch
AKE's Political Risk Outlook Special Report contains a selection of five countries from around the world where the political or economic landscape was...
AKE Special Report: IS-K: down but not out
While the IS-K threat is primarily domestic and the group poses no serious threat to the Taliban regime, it has expanded its activities in northern Af...
AKE Insights Report – Trump and Trumpism
This AKE Special Report looks into the the Republican midterm primaries. The primaries indicate the level of influence former president Donald Trump ...
