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...

The purpose of the article is two-fold:1) To provide an outline of the main results of our upcoming book Corruption Economic Analysis and Evolution of the International Law and Institutions, by focusing in particular on the economic findings along with the policies we deem must be widely...

The present work is divided into three main parts. Part I aims at providing the proper background against which assessing the recent evolution of the EU anti-money laundering legal framework, by first illustrating the economic menaces posed by the crime at issue and, secondly, by accounting for...

While in a year of unprecedented crisis for the organisation the event did not make many news headlines, on 12 April 2019, the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) commemorated its 30th anniversary. Together with the many rules on notifications, publication and reporting embodied in the...

The Security Council's reaction to the nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) in 2016 through Resolutions 2270 and 2321 have significantly changed the picture of UN sanctions regime against this country and created the most comprehensive,...

State-owned enterprises have long constituted, and are likely to remain, an important instrument in any government's toolbox for a variety of economic and societal goals. However, the significant extent of state ownership among the world's top companies, and the quantitative and qualitative...

The paper has a two-fold aim: first, it accounts for the legal grounds and evolution of the regulations regarding the mechanisms of international restitution of proceeds from illicit activity. Secondly, it illustrates the main challenges international asset recovery faces and possible solutions...

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...