<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nika Chitadze</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Dimensions of Organized Crime and Ways of Preventing Threats at International Level</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Connections: The Quarterly Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">corruption</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">illegal formations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">international conventions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">law enforcement agencies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mafia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Organized crime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">smuggling</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Summer 2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">15</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17-32</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The present paper predominantly focuses on the different approaches related to the definition of organized crime, the primary conditions that create a convenient foundation upon which organized crime can develop, the main activities of organized criminal groups, and leading organized criminal formations across the different regions of the world, in particular, the Italian Mafia, the Japanese bōryokudan (Yakuza), Chinese triads, Colombian drug cartels, and Russian criminal organizations (“Russian Mafia”), and so on.
The second part of the paper is dedicated to the review of the international experience of fighting against transnational organized crime, particularly with regard to different international conventions and agreements within the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. It also explores this phenomena on a UN-level and with reference to a range of European institutions (the EU, Council of Europe). The concluding section sees an examination of the role of law enforcement agencies in the fight against organized crime.
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francesca Vietti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Franzini Tibaldeo, Roberto</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Human Rights and Ethical Lens on Security and Human Dignity: The Case Study of Syrian Asylum Seekers</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asylum</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ethics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Europe</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Union</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fundamental rights</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human dignity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human mobility</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human rights</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human Security</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">smuggling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Syrian asylum seekers</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">33</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">35-53</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The article tackles the plural and evolving concepts of security by analysing their relation to human rights and ethics. Although the general impression is that seldom the security discourse is associated with the respect of human rights and ethics, at least from a theoretical point of view security is indeed intertwined with those normative features (first thesis). Moreover, ethics and human rights can be valuably and usefully employed to clarify issues related to security and eventually to suggest improvements in the political management of security issues (second thesis). We argue our theses by focusing on a case study of particular relevance to the present day debate on security: the Syrian asylum seekers headed to Europe. In our ethical and human rights enquiry into this case study we consider multiple aspects related to security (‘de jure’ or normative, ‘de facto’ and perceptive-societal) and the interpretative lens provided by ethics and human rights sheds light on the crucial and manifold centrality played by the notion of human dignity.
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iztok Prezelj</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marija Gaber</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smuggling as a Threat to National and International Security: Slovenia and the Balkan Route</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Athena Papers</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Balkans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">drug trafficking</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">illegal migration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">security threats</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">smuggling</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garmisch-Partenkirchen</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The general aim of this book is to analyze the threat of smuggling in general and in the particular context of the Republic of Slovenia, as well as the countermeasures that Slovenia is taking. Its primary focus is on the three most prevalent and dangerous types of smuggling: the smuggling of people, drugs, and weapons. Specifically, it provides analysis of the international and Slovenian understanding of the term smuggling; the Balkan smuggling route; national statistics on smuggling people, drugs and weapons to or through Slovenia; the organization of groups responsible for smuggling people, drugs, and weapons to or through Slovenia (the organization of smugglers, division of labor, methods of concealment, ways of crossing the border, means of communication, indices and indicators of smuggling, frequency of smuggling for particular groups, prices and methods of payment, motivation and profile of smugglers, etc.); and the Slovenian response to the threat of smuggling, with a focus on key police and customs measures.
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