This book provides a comprehensive description of the United Nations procurement rules. Benefiting from the author s extensive legal experience from the secretariats of the United Nations and UNIDO, the work offers a comparison with the WTO s government procurement procedures and a succinct analysis of the findings of shortcomings by the Independent Inquiry into United Nations procurement for the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme. The accountability of the United Nations for its far-flung procurement actions is considered not to meet international legal requirements. As a remedy against disregard...

Old and New Terrorism provides the most comprehensive account of the evolution of terrorism in the modern world, and a concise and careful analysis of the forces that have driven its transformation. The book:

• charts the development of terrorist network structures
• assesses the impact of modern communication systems on the spread of terrorism
• explains the rise of religiously inspired terrorism
• and, shows what lies behind mass-casualty terrorism and the targeting of civilians.

Peter Neumann offers a subtle and sophisticated picture of the...