Im Jahr 2010 jährt sich zum zehnten Mal die Verabschiedung der "United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime"; zugleich findet im April 2010 in Salvador/Brasilien der zwölfte UN-Kongress zur Verbrechensverhütung und zu Strafjustiz statt. Beide Ereignisse sind Anlass, die...

The legitimacy of international institutions is a contested issue both in terms of concept formation and empirical evidence and attracts attention from across the political sciences. The present contribution posits a relational concept of legitimacy that includes self-justification of rulers on...

The report 'Preparing for Complexity - The European Parliament in 2025', presented by the Secretary General of the European Parliament in January 2013, identified the core set of problematic issues in European defence policy as a) duplication, b) lack of a common strategic view and c) lack of a...

States - whether classified as strong or fragile - and nations still matter in the Sahel, but local and country dynamics are better understood in the broader regional context. The report underscores the necessity for a concerted and comprehensive regional approach, whose importance is...

The field of security policy seems to have undergone dramatic changes in the last decades. Under the broad umbrella of a turn to security governance, one can observe trends of an internationalization and privatization of security. Of these trends, one seems to stand out, that is the increasing...