In an increasingly unstable world order, there has never been a greater need for international cooperation in the fight … against transnational crime and terrorism. The operations of non-state armed groups, terrorists, and transnational criminal … lawyers or judges in the developing world, there is another sort of national institution that serves as a necessary …

in both the developed and developing world (excluding sub-Saharan Africa). At present, the global framework for action on … chronic disease is strongly 'WHO-centric', defined by two World Health Organisation initiatives: the WHO Framework Convention …

, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the impacts of these markets. In Asia, these … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … trafficking) in Asia and worldwide. These developments have triggered extreme responses, such as Philippines' President Duterte …

Crime has historically been a local phenomenon. Most murder victims know their killers; most victims of child abuse … know their abusers; victims of theft often need not look beyond their own neighborhoods for the thieves. Crime is regulated … cases. Globalization is changing this in ways that have yet to be fully explored. Although crime as an event will always …

While organised crime comes in a variety of guises, in this paper we argue that organised crime in the Pacific can be … decades have made it increasingly likely that the relationship between politics and organised crime is likely to strengthen …. The first is the systematic weakening of crime prevention and oversight institutions – which is often contributed to by …