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...

Corruption presents many legal and regulatory challenges, but these challenges cannot be met by the law in isolation. This book presents economic analysis of crime as an essential tool for shaping an effective legal apparatus. The authors contend that in order to assess whether and how to...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...

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...

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,...

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...