Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building: Human Security in the Western Balkans

ISBN-13: 9780230234628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 366 str.

Wolfgang Benedek; Christopher Daase; Petrus Van Duyne

Opis

This volume investigates the role of the transnational terrorist and criminal organizations in the peace-building processes, with a particular focus on the Western Balkan region. Conducted within the framework of human security analysis, the research focuses on the security of the human being.

Spis treści

PART I: CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES The Human Security Approach to Terrorism and Organized Crime in Post-Conflict Situations; W.Benedek Human Security and Peace-Building in the Western Balkans; S.Djurdjevic-Lukic & V.Dimitrijevi? Human Security in a Weak State in the Balkans: Globalization and Transnational Networks; D.Kostovicova & V.Bojicic-Dzelilovic Terrorism and Organized Crime: One or Two Challenges?; C.Daase Fear of Terrorism, Coping Paradox and Gender; S.Ben-David & K.Cohen-Louck Networks and the Study of Criminal and Terrorist Organizations; G.Kolliarakis Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism: Legal Distinctions; M.Hilf PART II: TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM AND ORGANISED CRIME IN THE WESTERN BALKANS Researching Terrorism and Organized Crime in Southeast Europe; H-J.Albrecht & A.M.Getoš Getting Better?: A Map of Organized Crime in the Western Balkans; D.Anastasijevic The Longest Siege: Humanitarians and Profiteers in the Battle for Sarajevo; P.Andreas Unholy Alliances: Evidence on Linkages between Trans-State Terrorism and Crime Networks: The Case of Bosnia; L.G.Mincheva & T.R.Gurr Small Arms and Light Weapons Problem in the Western Balkans; I.Prezelj PART III: PEACE-BUILDING AND THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON THE WESTERN BALKANS Dealing with Armed Non-State Actors in Peace- and State-Building, Types and Strategies; U.Schneckener The Corruption of Human Rights: A Problem of Good Intentions; N.Dorn Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Western Balkans' System of Security; L.Sadikovic Bosnia and the Art of Policy Implementation: Obstacles to International Counter-Crime Strategies; C.Friesendorf, U.C.Schroeder & I.Deljkic Victims' Participation in the Criminal Justice System and its Impact on Peace-Building; A.P.Jorge-Birol Nationalist Violence in Post-Milo?evi? Serbia: Extremist Right-Wing Youth Groups as Instruments of Intimidation of Civic-Minded Individuals and Organizations; S.Franco

O autorze

HANS-JÖRG ALBRECHT is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (MPICC) DEJAN ANASTASIJEVIC is senior investigative reporter for the Belgrade-based VREME weekly, and free-lance Balkan correspondent for TIME magazine PETER ANDREAS is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Brown University, USA SARAH BEN-DAVID is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel VESNA BOJICIC-DZELILOVIC is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK KEREN COHEN-LOUCK is a Ph.D student in the Department of Criminology of Bar-Illan University, Israel IRMA DELJKI? is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina SVETLANA DJURDJEVIC LUKIC is Research Associate with the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia NICHOLAS DORN is Professor of International Safety and Governance at the School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands SARAH FRANCO is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Throndheim, Norway CORNELIUS FRIESENDORF is Fellow at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Switzerland. ANNA-MARIA GETO is Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (MPICC) TED ROBERT GURR is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, USA MARIANNE HILF is Professor at the Institute for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology of the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria GEORGIOS KOLLIARAKIS is Researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut for Political science at the University of Munich, Germany DENISA KOSTOVICOVA is Lecturer at the Government Department and Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK LYUBOV GRIGOROVA - MINCHEVA is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria ALLINE PEDRA JORGE-BIROL is lawyer with Brazilian license and a PhD candidate in Criminology at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland IZTOK PREZELJ is Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia LADA SADIKOVI? (LLD) is Senior Lecturer of Human Rights and European and International Law at the Faculty of Criminology of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ULRICH SCHNECKENER is Head of Research Division Global Issues, German Institute for International and Security Studies, Berlin URSULA C. SCHROEDER is Lecturer in International Relations at the Free University, Berlin, Germany.