Matthew Flug
Geoeconomics of Irregular Warfare: Iran and the Global Ripple Effects — Part VII
In Part Seven of Irregular Warfare Initiative’s series on the Iran conflict, produced by IWI’s Economic & Legal Warfare team, the focus turns to how escalation is being applied across economic, legal, and cognitive domains. The discussion features an expert panel including, Gianni Koskinas (CEO, Hoplite Group), Hamlet
Economic Warfare Reimagined: Insurance as a Tool of U.S. Strategic Influence
The U.S. is losing the war on sentiment in the Global South, where the world’s most economically vulnerable countries rely on larger powers for economic support and security. Russia and China have capitalized on this dynamic by seizing the economic initiative in this region, often at the expense
Geoeconomics of Irregular Warfare: Iran and the Global Ripple Effects — Part II
In Part Two of Irregular Warfare Initiative’s special series examining the unfolding conflict with Iran, Hamlet Yousef (IWI Economic & Legal Warfare Advisor), Ioannis Koskinas (CEO, Hoplite Group), and Mark Kelton (Former Senior Executive Service Officer, CIA) discuss the geoeconomic dimensions of the conflict and the broader ripple effects
Geoeconomics of Irregular Warfare: Iran and the Global Ripple Effects
✉️ Email header below is auto-generated from this post’s author tag. It only appears in the newsletter — please don’t edit or delete it. In the first session of the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Economic and Legal Warfare series, Matthew Flug (Co-Director, IWI Economic & Legal Warfare), Hamlet Yousef (Irongate
Venezuela Unbound: Economics & Influence in a Post Maduro Era
In this episode, Matthew Flug (Co-Director, IWI Economic & Legal Warfare) and Hamlet Yousef (Irongate Capital Advisers) host a roundtable on the immediate aftermath of Maduro’s removal in Venezuela and what it could mean for regional power dynamics, economic stabilization, and irregular competition in the Western Hemisphere. Joining him
The Silk Road of Crime: Chinese Criminal Networks
Chinese criminal networks have built a global illicit infrastructure and the Western Hemisphere is now a key battlespace. Economic and Legal Warfare Project hosted a fireside chat to discuss how Chinese criminal groups connect chemical suppliers, Mexican cartels, Latin American corruption, diaspora associations, digital scam syndicates, and sophisticated money-laundering pipelines
An Introduction to the Economic & Legal Warfare Project
Irregular warfare thrives in the proverbial “gray zone”—that murky space between war and peace, conflict and stability. The past several decades have shown a need to move beyond Cold War-era orthodoxy, where military force was the primary lever of assertive power, to an environment in which non-military hard power
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.