Influence-for-hire: Southeast Asia's shadow economy?

• Main Author: Tan, Sean
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; International Politics and Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159425
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Influence-for-hire operations are spreading in the region while commercial agents are taking on an ever more prominent role both domestically and internationally. They not only help to obscure clients’ motives but also make such operations more accessible to an even broader set of threat actors.