This course examines how terrorist groups, criminal organizations, and state adversaries raise, move, and conceal funds to enable operations. For the purposes of this course, threat financing encompasses terrorist financing, criminal financing, and proliferation financing.



The course surveys contemporary policy and regulatory approaches to disrupting illicit finance, including sanctions (unilateral and multilateral), export controls, technology and trade restrictions, and beneficial-ownership transparency. We analyze how multilateral and intergovernmental bodies—notably the United Nations and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)—set standards and coordinate implementation.



We also assess tools of economic statecraft and their interaction with law-enforcement and intelligence efforts to map and interdict financial networks; the emphasis of this work is analytical and policy-focused (not operational).