The disappearance of 500-euro notes and the creation of bitcoin have led money laundering networks to pay drug traffickers in cryptocurrencies and ship cash to Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
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The world’s largest warship is now patrolling the Caribbean north of Venezuela. It carries 4,000 US sailors and 75 fighter jets. We’ve been tracking it for the past week.
While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War.
Japan has a very high bar for prosecutions, meaning only the strongest cases are brought to trial. Yet, many problems with the justice system still exist.
Latin America’s spike in violence is the result of systemic problems that have long gone unaddressed.
International and Australian laws need to be updated to cope with the newest drug-trafficking technique threatening maritime security: remote-controlled narco-drones.
The maritime situation in Mozambique must not be allowed to emulate the maritime threats found off Nigeria, Somalia, and the rebel-held territories in Libya.
When illegal fishing is misrepresented, it leads to poor investments and misguided policies that don’t help the actual problem.
Now is the time to give China the chance to show that while the Chinese justice system can mete out punishment, it can also exercise compassion and could spare the life of a Canadian drug smuggler.
From terrorism to drug smuggling and theft, the hostile insider is an often overlooked threat to airport security and safety.
The number of piracy attacks has certainly declined. But the risk of being attacked at sea remains.
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
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VIsiting Professor, Coventry University; Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of International Security at University of Bristol and Director of the Centre for Global Insecurity, University of Bristol
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Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy; Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, University of Calgary
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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PhD candidate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Honorary Reader in the Department of International Development, University of Birmingham
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The Conversation
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Senior Associate, Americas Program, The Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Professor, Centre for Military and Security Law, Australian National University
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Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW
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Research Coordinator, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Maître de conférences en Sciences économiques, LabEx RéFi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO