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There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organisations in Mexico. This violence has generated concern among U.S. policy makers that the violence in Mexico might spill over into the United States. The most recent threat assessment indicates that the Mexican drug trafficking organisations pose the greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States, and this threat is driven partly by U.S. demand for drugs. This book is an overview of the potential spill-over violence and related issues between the U.S. and Mexico in the ongoing drug-trafficking operations on the Southwest borders.

This book explores the interdependences of economic globalisation, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the opportunities of globalization and cope with the numerous potential conflicts and risks. The authors adopt a multidisciplinary approach based on various theories from economics, political science, sociology and law to provide new insights into globalisation processes, their causes and effects and to further develop the understanding of, and interaction between globalisation and governance. They underline the need to design innovative governance structures at national, regional, and global levels - an unalterable precondition to overcome political, cultural, and distributional conflicts in a globalising world. In conclusion, the book prescribes development strategies to successfully manage and overcome the political, cultural and distributional conflicts arising in a globalizing world. Highlighting the successes and failures of globalization, this challenging book will be warmly welcomed by scholars and researchers in various fields of economics including development economics, institutional economics, political economy, and the economics of transition. Those with an interest in regulation and governance, including policy-makers and professionals in non-governmental organizations and development agencies will also find the book to be an invaluable tool

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police students career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project, following police students in seven European countries. The unique data material makes it possible to explore a wide range of topics relevant to the future development of policing, police education and police science more generally.Part I presents an overview of the different goals and models of police education in the seven participating countries. Part II describes what type of student is attracted to police education, taking into consideration educational background, political orientation and career aspirations. Part III shows the social impact of police education by examining students orientations towards emerging competence areas; students career aspirations; and students attitudes concerning trust, cynicism and legalism.The overall results show that police students are strikingly similar across different types of police education. Students in academic institutions are at least as interested in street patrolling as students in vocational training institutions. Gender and recruitment policies matters more in relation to career preferences than education models. The national context plays a more important role than the type of police education system. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology, sociology, social theory and cultural studies and those interested in how police education shapes its graduates.

The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region provides insight into the energy trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region has undergone significant transformation in the last number of years Energy actors in the region are struggling to reconcile new questions of energy security following the Covid 19 pandemic and invasion of Ukraine with net zero objectives and a cost of living crisis Balancing these concerns is essential to resolving the energy trilemma the dilemma that emerges for policy makers and regulators seeking to balance energy security equity and environmental concerns in pursuit of a wholly sustainable energy system This volume draws together a range of perspectives from scholars of the Baltic Sea Region seeking to understand the manifestations and impact of these systemic regional changes In considering previously underexamined studies on the energy trilemma and in providing new perspectives by framing the trilemma in times of crisis this book provides new conceptual and empirical insight into a rapidly changing energy region at the heart of both European energy policy and the current energy crisis This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy politics energy law and policy energy tran

Marking its 25th anniversary this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICE Setting standards for the delivery of healthcare issuing guidance on public health and assessing and making recommendations on health technologies NICE has attracted widespread international attention emulation and comment The authors in this collection drawn from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds offer analysis of key issues which have informed NICE s work from the principles of health economics to patient engagement to the legal basis on which NICE operates Covering many of the most important themes within contemporary debates on health policy and management today this insightful collection will interest students and researchers as well as policy makers in the field

Oil wealth and Federal Conflict in American Petrofederations documents the critical relationship between oil rents and federal conflicts by illustrating key concepts with six representative cross regional case studies Each case study discusses encompasses qualitative quantitative and comparative elements under a common structure With each petrofederation ranging in conflict types and modalities the work as a whole identifies key differences including oil rent decentralization in terms of resource property sector management and distribution of revenues sectoral importance considered at national and subnational levels and federation redistribution policy in terms of fiscal federal imbalance fiscal equalization and oil rent use for regional equity Collectively the book generalizes a consistent theory of causality between oil rents and federal conflicts that take into account systemic variables The book s conclusions will serve as a guide for researchers and policymakers seeking pathways to translate oil rents into development and stability

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan''s classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance for the study of contemporary elections, voters and parties. Most importantly this volume gives scope to new areas such as consociational democracies, small island states, and newly democratising Eastern and Central European and Third World countries.

Bringing a dose of reality to the stuff of literary thrillers, this masterful study is the first closely detailed, comparative analysis of the evolution of the modern British and American intelligence communities. * U.S. and U.K. case studies that draw on archival and published sources and on interviews with practitioners * Parallel timelines for principal national intelligence coordinating bodies in the United States and United Kingdom * Organization charts for the United States Intelligence Board and the U.K. Joint Intelligence Organisation, both from the early 1960s * An extensive glossary of terms and abbreviations used in the British and American intelligence communities * An extensive bibliography

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Over the past decade cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness powered by cameras that monitor our movements sensors that line our streets and algorithms that determine our resource allocation but at what cost Exploring the relationship between technology and cities this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance The first collection of its kind this groundbreaking volume brings together social economic and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing techno