Briefing Note: Old Wine, New Bottles? The Challenge of State Threats
21 July 2025
Published by SOC ACE Research Programme
STATE THREATS
Much of the current discourse around state threats has been poorly and loosely defined, however, and has failed to ask basic questions such as why state threats are so important now. This briefing note summarises research that addresses these and other concerns, looking to provide firmer definitional boundaries and explore the scale, scope and character of modern state threats within them.