Consultoria em Estudos sobre Guerras, Terrorismo e Estratégia

 Global highlights   The 2020 edition of the CPI ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, drawing on 13 expert assessments and surveys of business executives. It uses a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).  Denmark and New Zealand top the index, with 88 points. Syria, Somalia and South Sudan come last, with 14, 12 and 12 points, respectively.   Significant changes  Since 2012, the earliest point of comparison in the current CPI methodology, 26 countries significantly improved their CPI scores, including Ecuador (39), Greece (50), Guyana (41), Myanmar (28) and South Korea (61).    Twenty-two countries significantly decreased their scores, including Bosnia  & Herzegovina (35), Guatemala (25), Lebanon (25), Malawi (30), Malta (53) and Poland (56).  Nearly half of countries have been stagnant on the index for almost a decade, indicating stalled government efforts to ta...

 According to ISW, the joint Russian-Belarusian-Serbian military exercise Slavic Brotherhood 2021 advanced Russian efforts to gain control over the Belarusian military and cultivate partner forces that the Kremlin can use in future Russian deployments.  President Lukashenko promoted pro-Kremlin task force to maintain in power and militarize the political assetments and gain geopolitical position. The political strategy is about use task forces over the territory and keep the politics siege by EU.  Military exercises is a deterrent strategy in EU paralel to NATO forces, than keep the Kremlin forçes opperating together Belarusian and Serbian allies. Russia and Belarus operated integrated combat units at the company level for the first time, building on previous exercises fielding combined battalions. The Kremlin practiced integrating non-Belarusian troops into Russian-controlled companies and platoons for the first time—a dangerous development that will expand Russian contr...