Geopolitics and security

A Risk Analysis Retrospective on the 2015 Paris Attacks

This report provides a risk analysis retrospective on the 2015 Paris Attacks. These attacks included the 7 January Charlie Hebdo shootings as well as the terror on 13 November in which 130 people were killed at various locations in the city, including the Bataclan theatre.

China-Japan Geopolitical Conflict Stress Test Scenario

This report is part of the Centre for Risk Studies’ suite of stress test scenario reports, developed to explore management processes for dealing with an extreme shock. It is not a prediction.

Cyber Terrorism: Assessment of the Threat to Insurance

Modern terrorism is a geopolitical threat in constant evolution. Potential futures range from terrorist acquisition of weapons of mass destruction through to all-out economic and psychological warfare, or the repeated use of insurgency tactics to undermine the political tolerance of Western populations.

Millennial Uprising Social Unrest Stress Test Scenario

This report is part of the Centre for Risk Studies’ suite of stress test scenario reports, developed to explore management processes for dealing with an extreme shock. It is not a prediction.

Profile of a Macro-Catastrophe Threat Type ‘Geopolitical Conflict’

Armed conflicts between states litter the records of history. Wars have been fought for a multitude of reasons, however these can be fractured into main three strands: political ambitions, economic motives, and ideological differences.

Profile of the Macro-Catastrophe threat type ‘Organised Crime – Piracy’

This paper is part of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies’ Working Paper Series on threats to the global economy and focuses on the geopolitical threat: piracy.

Profile of a Macro-Catastrophe Threat Type ‘Social Unrest’

This paper is part of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies’ Working Paper Series on threats to the global economy. The publication focuses in the Geopolitics & Security threat class: social unrest.

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