CSD Brief No 14: Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement along Bulgaria's Borders: the Impact of EU Accession
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Total Pages: 21
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Examining the links between organised crime and corruption
Author: Philip Gounev
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9789544771621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSystematically examines, across all 27 EU Member States, how organised crime uses corruption as a tool. The study is based on more than 150 interviews with corruption specialists and more than 120 statistical and survey indicators on corruption and organised crime. The study focuses on how organised and white collar criminals use corruption to target public institutions (politicians, police, judiciary, and customs), as well as how it is used for the operation of key criminal markets (cigarettes, drugs, prostitution, car-theft, and extortion-racketeering). The study also examines how private sector company employees are corrupted by organised criminals. Although the study does not map the specifics of how corruption is used in each EU Member State, six in-depth studies (on Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) provide a more in-depth look in the situation in these countries.
Anti-corruption Measures in EU Border Control
Author: Philip Gounev
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9789544771928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClosing the Gap in a Generation
Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9241563702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.
World Drug Report 2007
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2007-06-27
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9211554012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report offers one of the most comprehensive insights into global trends in international culture, production, seizure and price of illicit drugs. It examines trends in the world's four major markets: opium and heroin, coca and cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine-type stimulants. This edition provides an in-depth examination of the link between transnational organized crime and drug trafficking. A detailed statistical appendix on production, prices and consumption completes this book, which gives the reader a comprehensive picture of the world's drug problem.
Organized Crime in Bulgaria
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Publisher: CSD
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9544771506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmuggling in Southeast Europe
Author: Marko Hajdinjak
Publisher: CSD
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9544770992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes and reviews the connection between the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the growth of the trans-border crime in the region, and also looks at the related issue of corruption. The paper highlights the decisive impact the Yugoslav wars had on the development of the regional criminal networks, which were often set up and maintained not only with the knowledge, but even with active participation of the highest state officials. The research also represents a contribution to the study of conflicts in the Western Balkans. The majority of existing interpretations of causes, course and consequences of the Yugoslav wars try to provide the answers through ethno-political explanations. They unjustly ignore the importance that interweaving of interests of political elites, the organized crime groups, which appeared in this period, and the "mediating class" of corrupt state officials had in this process.
The Kremlin Playbook
Author: Heather A. Conley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 1442279591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia has cultivated an opaque web of economic and political patronage across the Central and Eastern European region that the Kremlin uses to influence and direct decisionmaking. This report from the CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with the Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy, is the result of a 16-month study on the nature of Russian influence in five case countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Serbia.
Customs Modernization Handbook
Author: Luc De Wulf
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2005-01-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0821383728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrade integration contributes substantially to economic development and poverty alleviation. In recent years much progress was made to liberalize the trade regime, but customs procedures are often still complex, costly and non-transparent. This situation leads to misallocation of resources. 'Customs Modernization Handbook' provides an overview of the key elements of a successful customs modernization strategy and draws lessons from a number of successful customs reforms as well as from customs reform projects that have been undertaken by the World Bank. It describes a number of key import procedures, that have proved particularly troublesome for customs administrations and traders, and provides practical guidelines to enhance their efficiency. The Handbook also reviews the appropriate legal framework for customs operations as well as strategies to combat corruption.
Regions and Powers
Author: Barry Buzan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-04
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780521891110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.
