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An examination and critique of the functionalist literature on corruption in the political administration of less developed countries (LDCs) indicate that its claims are without empirical foundation. Its theses with regard to the political, economic and administrative effects in most LDCs...
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community has struggled to adapt to the new international security context. Among the challenges that are currently being …
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The thesis of this article is that the unique nature of terrorist crime requires a tweaking of the entrapment rules …
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Since 9/11, both the phenomenon and study of international terrorism-- also known as transnationaI terrorism-- has become more prominent in government, media, scholarly, and educational circles. This chapter provides a brief overview of international terrorism, including domestic and...
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The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides … Negative Binomial regressions. Three main findings are established. First , security officers and the police significantly … thresholds suggest that a maximum deployment of security officers and the police is required in order to completely cancel out …
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In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … revolutionary effects of globalization and its new challenges to world security and stability. The challenges to security now come …. Emphasis is focused on (a) how the field is changing, and the relation between new security challenges and required new …
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weapons are: perceptions of crime; criminality; conflict intensity; political instability; military expenditure, violent …
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Because of the difficulties of distinguishing friend and foe, security and insecurity, or even war and peace, terrorism … be used both to enhance security and to keep the faith with constitutional values …
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Debate continues as to the transformations in terrorism evidenced by the September 11 attacks and since that time. Some, including the former U.S. President, point to changes in the nature of terrorism and argue that September 11 constituted a wholly new form of terrorism that demanded a novel...
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A recurring question in international criminal procedure is how to ensure that prosecutors are held accountable for their errors and misconduct. When International Criminal Court (ICC) judges encountered the first serious error by the prosecution in Prosecutor v. Lubanga, they opted for an...
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