This project uses a range of analytical tools from complex systems analysis, social and organisational psychology, and evolutionary biology to examine the strengths and weaknesses of transnational actors.

Specifically, the project will:

• Explicate the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses of transnational actors.
• Determine what processes exist that create opportunities for radicalisation.
• Determine how climate change and other natural events could give rise to the radicalisation of transnational actors.
• Develop an understanding of transactional networking structures.
• Identify the dynamics of flows of inspiration.
• Define how knowledge is conveyed through transactional networking structures.
• Clarify the financial structure of transactional networks including the flow of finance within and between networks.
• Identify the business activities involved in carrying out different transnational crimes in order to identify the functions, processes and network configurations attributed to these various crimes.
• Use information on the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses of transnational actors to guide law enforcement operations so that they can be used to target, divert and destroy transnational criminal networks.