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
COVID-19 caught most international security academics by surprise. Initial articles featured the role of China and Russia in the pandemic. As of April 2020, Marshall Center faculty members and befriended academics of the Partnership for Peace Consortium started to write how Beijing and Moscow were trolling Europe's public with disinformation, propagandistic aid campaigns, and winkingly promoting authoritarian ways as superior to western models in handling a crisis. However, they also added papers on the virus's impact on specific regions, i.e., the European Union, the Balkans, or Central Asia. Some writers discussed the legitimate use of tools to control the pandemic in the national domain; other works revisited pre-coronavirus topics such as terrorism.
This special edition of Connections illustrates what ten acknowledged experts considered important and worth of observation regarding the impact of the virus on international relations.
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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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