The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical assessment and outline issues in criminal regulation relating to international anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Design/methodology/approach – In the first part, this paper outlines the serious threats posed by transnational laundering...

With some 40 different types of restrictive measures in force, the European Union is undisputedly one of the major protagonists of today's sanction regimes. Measures such as selective trade embargos, asset freezes and travel bans have been adopted by the EU not only to implement Security Council...

The present study explores the complex and still evolving international legal framework aiming at contrasting the global threats to security represented by terrorist financing, money laundering and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It starts noting that the pivotal...

The prevailing view among legal scholars over the last decade is that international financial collaboration is a resolutely cooperative venture that cannot be reduced to the interests or relative power of individual states. Moving along this line, the book under review shows that the protection...

The prevailing view of the U.N. system’s approach to organized crime holds that progress in integrating counter-crime initiatives into peace operations established by the U.N. Security Council has been limited, and the U.N. system has taken a cautious approach against organized crime. A more...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...

The present chapter is premised on the assumption that the promotion of liberal market values is an essential objective of the international economic order, but that so too is (and will be) the preservation of institutional diversity and the capacity for institutional innovation, against which...