Abstract The argument in this paper is that international lawyers—scholars and practitioners alike—should be cognisant of the fact that different economic distributions within nations will lead to the establishment of different international legal systems in terms of their formation and...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to empirically examine the interdependence of income between China and ASEAN‐5 countries by using the real gross domestic product (GDP). Besides answering this important policy question, the paper is also concerned with ascertaining the causal direction...

Purpose – This paper aims to be a “thought piece”. It is not based upon rigorous empirical research supported by focused economic theory. Rather it presents a view of where China is likely to see its economic expansion under a new leadership and at the same time how Egypt could be very...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the emergence of the concept of outstanding universal value and its application from the ancient to modern times culminating with its codification under the auspices of UNESCO in 1972. Design/methodology/approach – The nearly four...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to describe and explain the importance of informal co‐operation and networking between police officers when it comes to international police co‐operation. The paper goes on to ask “what works” and what can be done to make international co‐operation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine motivating factors for why public and private actors initiate costly and risky civil actions to recover loss due to corruption in an era of increasing multilateral consensus and cooperation against corruption and organised crime....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the government efforts in criminalising and combating bank fraud and corruption in China and their policy implications. Design/methodology/approach – An integrated method is used to gather the data for this study, including government...

Purpose – The paper aims to give an account to describe the way the South‐South development programme is realized between Taiwan and Belize. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is the result of ethnographic fieldwork research combined with a literature study. Findings – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if business practices for performance through risk control methods can be applied by defence forces in peace missions called for by the United Nations (UN) in order to improve the efficiency of such missions. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The paper aims at contributing to the cutback management and organizational decline streams of research by providing an in‐depth analysis of the main challenges that public managers have to address in managing public spending and activity cutbacks as a response to the current...