...Anastas Angjeli Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Anastas Angjeli is professor of finance at the University of Tirana and a member of the Albanian National Assembly. He is a former minister of finance. The Challenge of Terrorism and Organized Crime...

...Andrew Cooke-Welling This essay considers whether genocide is a neglected area of criminological inquiry. After a brief history of its evolution and definition, genocide is considered alongside other crimes against international law, including international human rights law (specifically, war...

...' anxieties brought about by economic crisis, illegal immigration issues, high unemployment rates, increases in crime, anti-austerity public sentiments, and the uncertainty over the country's future to become, in just a few years, a formidable political party in Greece. George Bistis is an award-winning...

...Filippo Focardi The Italian national memory has still not come to terms with the responsibilities of Benito Mussolini's Italy for the Axis war of 1940 – 43, which Italy fought on the side of Nazi Germany. It has also not come to terms with the serious war crimes Italy committed in the occupied...

... at The Hague. It’s a sure bet that by 2014 the appeal will be upheld for guilt of committing various war crimes. That assumes the tribunal still has a defendant, since two Serbian presidents and one Serbian mayor, among others, have died in ICTY custody. Who knows what the surreal judicial alchemy shall...

... at the Yale Law School, at <www.yaleedu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm>. For those interested in pursuing the development of the offense of crimes against humanity, the text of the Control Council Law may be compared to Arti- cle 7 of the Rome Statute. See also...

... that Ireland was “particularly exposed to all forms of international crime” and was being used by criminals as a gateway to and from the rest of Europe. Warning of the dangers of organized criminal gangs, O’Donoghue said that Ireland was beginning to become “a focus for illegal immigrant smugglers...

...Christopher Black Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Christopher Black is a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Toronto. Black is one of the group of Canadian lawyers who filed a complaint of war crimes against NATO on 7 May 1999. MQ 11.2-03.Black 4/10/00 11:35 AM Page 29...

... to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and the Protocol to Pre- vent, Suppress and Punish Traffi cking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the UN...

... appears to have become lost for the trees. R2P can be defined as the respon- sibility of a state to protect its citizens from the specific crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes; the doctrine also includes the aspect of prevention of these crimes through any...

... with Albania, some of which have already been addressed. The following will focus on three of the more troublesome challenges: illegal migration, organized crime, and institutional instability. Illegal migration in Albania, as in many other parts...

... must not live in it or be captured by it. It is a well-­known truth that for a crime to remain in the past, it needs to face its punishment. Nations, there- fore, face a difficult but necessary and ultimately liberating process of cathar- sis. There are no criminal peoples; there are just criminals...

... with a tide of humanity fl eeing from countries north of the Limpopo River, which are confronting poverty, civil war, environmental catastrophe, or politi- cal mismanagement. Taking advantage of this situation, organized crime syndicates have seized on the opportunity to engage in human traffi cking...

..., which must be corrected. First and foremost, no “intended and systematic destruction of the Otto- man Armenian community in the period 1915 to 1918,” as he claims, occurred, nor did “a major crime against humanity in the twentieth century” transpire in Anatolia. What the Ottoman government did...

... the lonely voices of philosophers Jean Paul Sartre and Bertrand Russell, who characterized the killings of Tutsis in 1963 – 64 as “the most barbaric crimes committed in the world since the holocaust of Jews,” the rest of the world was silent and indifferent. So the first lesson we learn from...

... fi rst phase of freedom in Albania. We have come through instability, fi nancial disaster, and ethnic violence at our doorstep. We have struggled to fi nd the right ways to defeat crime and crimi- nals, corruption, and the loss of our population to places that provide them better opportunities...

... can make or break a company within minutes. If information is leaked, even inadvertently, a company can be destroyed, and individuals involved in revealing government-monopolized information can be sent to prison. Even though economic crimes are serious offenses in the United States, violent...

... Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina and could complicate the still unresolved process of state building in Albania itself. Third, in a province so weak economically and so poorly developed institution- ally, the infl uence of organized crime or terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda would...

... and perpetrated by at least two men but probably no more than a dozen or so. Other small groups of deter- 36 Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2004 mined persons could commit such crimes. Indeed, they already have. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) annually publishes Terrorism in the United States...

...-7601-9. $25 (paperback). Reviewed by Magnus Nordenman. Much has been written over the years about Naples and its long and complicated strug­ gle with organized crime. Just a few years ago Naples and the surrounding region of Campania made international news with its garbage emergency, which...