Contents
Karachi: Organized Crime in a Key Megacity
Global Dimensions of Organized Crime and Ways of Preventing Threats at International Level
Transnational Organized Crime – Latvian Challenges and Responses
Maritime Piracy as a Form of Organized Crime: A Strategic Management Approach
Cyberspace as the Environment Affected by Organized Crime Activity
The Mobilization and Recruitment of Foreign Fighters: The Case of Islamic State, 2012–2014
Two of the papers in the Fall 2013 issue of Connections look into the legitimacy in the use of force in cyber space in three recent cyber attacks and the engagement between NATO/U.S. and Russia in the cyber domain. Another article treats the dilemma of transparency vs. confidentiality in the oversight of security agencies and the experience with parliamentary committees of inquiry in Germany. The fourth article examines the paradigm shift in the discourse on energy security, and the final one - the causes for vulnerability of Western youth to Al Qaeda's ideological recruitment.
Previous Issue
Advances in sensors, communications, computing, nano- and bio-technologies, along with new strategies and operational concepts, challenge our policy-making capacity. The Spring 2016 issue of Connections presents the Emerging Security Challenges Working Group of the PfP Consortium and reflections of some of its members on the security and policy imp...
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