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The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...
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world realities. However, while in the UK stewardship was used as a crisis-repelling technique, in other contexts the values …
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While most terrorism remains localised, aspects of some transnational terrorism and counter-terrorism have been simultaneously enabled and constrained by globalisation. This paper addresses both the material, causative and legal dynamics of globalisation in relation to terrorism and...
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Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...
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U.S. policy concerning international justice, particularly at the ICC, involves case-by-case support when such support is in U.S. national interests. This policy signals that the U.S. considers itself a supranational justice donor rather than a member of a global justice community committed to...
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In 2009, Belgium and the Netherlands announced a deal to send approximately 500 Belgian inmates to Dutch prisons, in exchange for an annual payment of £26 million. The arrangement was unprecedented, but justified as beneficial to both nations: Belgium had too many prisoners and not enough...
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, 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 …
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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 …
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In the United States, union density continues to decline, while income inequality increases. But while union density falls we have experienced the counterintuitive rise in international framework agreements (IFAs), or agreements signed by global union federations (“global unions”) and...
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. Human trafficking is a major crime industry, generating about $32 billion in revenues annually. Around the globe, the … and not corrupt. This study examines the global scope of human trafficking and its negative affect on world society. This …
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