Crime, War, and Global Trafficking - Designing International Cooperation

Informationen zum Autor Christine Jojarth is Social Science Research Associate at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Klappentext Asks whether governments choose the best institutional designs to enable effective measures against criminal trafficking. Zusammenfassung International trafficking is thriving. Combating it requires international institutions that strike the right balance between credible enforcement and flexible adjustment. Combining ideas from international law and economics! Jojarth explores this institutional design dilemma! focusing on four recent important cases: narcotics! money laundering! conflict diamonds and small arms. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of legalization; 3. Problem constellation; 4. Narcotic drugs: UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances; 5. Money laundering: the Financial Action Task Force and its Forty Recommendations; 6. Conflict diamonds: the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme; 7. Small arms and light weapons: the United Nations Program of Action; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Jojarth, Jojarth Christine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521886116
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88611-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Organized crime, Comparative Politics, War Crimes, Crime & criminology, United Nations & Un Agencies