By The European Parliament. This Briefing note aims at providing the LIBE Committee with background and contextual information on PRISM/FISA/NSA activities and US surveillance programmes and their impact on EU citizens’ fundamental [...]

By Tom C.W. Lin.     The law discriminates among a corporation’s secrets. In the eyes of the law, commercial secrets of corporations are legitimate secrets that deserve legal protection and nondisclosure, but personal secrets [...]

  By Europol.     Mafia-type Italian organised crime is a clear and present threat to the European Union (EU). The basis of the power of the Italian Mafias resides in their control and exploitation of the territory and of the [...]

By Chryssoula Katsikoudis. Thailand’s deep south has had centuries of old tradition in conflict with the government based in Bangkok. While democracy expanded throughout Thailand in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Muslims essentially began to [...]

By Robert S. Leiken. INTRODUCTION Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón staked his presidency on a military campaign against the country’s crime syndicates, deploying half of Mexico’s combat ready troops and tens of thousands of federal [...]

By CFPB. Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DoddFrank Act), all covered persons or service providers are legally required to refrain from committing unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (collectively, [...]

By Nicolas Christin. “Silk Road anonymous marketplace was shut down on the end of September 2013. The FBI have arrested a man they believe to be the mastermind behind the biggest online illegal drug website that have ever existed and [...]

    The Daily Journalist commentary. Secret societies have an historical tendency to influence people in power. A place where magic and secrecy collide to serve an unknown porpoise set to carry out a mission to fulfill a cause. Many [...]

      By Major Michael L. Burgoyne, U.S. Army.       FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER  a powerful rebellion spread fear and destruction throughout the nation of Peru, the commanding general of the Peruvian Army, Otto Guibovich, [...]

By the Office of The National Counter-Intelligence executive. Executive Summary Foreign economic collection and industrial espionage against the United States represent significant and growing threats to the nation’s prosperity and security. [...]

    By Iran Human Rights.   During his 2013 presidential campaign, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani promised to uphold the “rightsof the people” enumerated in the country’s constitution. Millions of his supporters demanded [...]

    By Prof. Dr. Saniya Edelbay.   Abstract. In modern Kazakhstan Islam is one of the factors of cultural self-identification, of the search for spiritual identity. We observe a growing complexity of the inner-islamic situation [...]

  By SMART.     In times of social and political unrest, governments of mature and nascent democracies are increasingly tempted to reduce freedom of speech and unrestricted access to information, both offline and online. It is [...]

    By George Washington University.  Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen, meaning “Mujahedeen Youth Movement” in Arabic, is an alQa’ida affiliated terrorist organization that seeks to establish an Islamist state in Somalia. In [...]

By American University.     1. Introduction The phrase “Wall Street versus Main Street” became commonplace during the recent financial crisis as a shorthand means of describing opposing sides in a variety of contexts, from blame [...]

    By Rade Rajkovchevski and Dimitar Kirkovski.     The events in the 90s had serious implications on the peace and stability in Europe and beyond. The collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia; political instability and the [...]

By Shirley A. Khan. and FAS.       Summary. Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons [...]

  By Woodrow Wilson International Center.   On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe, in his State of the Union Address, established the principles of what is now known as the Monroe Doctrine: that the United States would  consider [...]

  By Joshua Craze. The border region between Sudan and South Sudan contains some of the two countries’ most fertile land. Much of the border lies between the ninth and tenth parallels, just below the dunes and stabilized sand sheets [...]

Iraqi army and intelligence services captured a five member al-Qaeda cell last week that specialised in manufacturing “extremely dangerous” chemical weapons intended for use in Iraq and abroad, the Iraqi Defence Ministry said.   The [...]