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From bad omens to commodities: Uncovering the spatiotemporal patterns and socio‐economic factors of online crow trade on Baidu Tieba using artificial intelligence

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract High demand for wild birds as pets stimulates overexploitation and threatens global avian biodiversity. Unlike commonly traded birds valued for colourful plumage or attractive songs, crows (e.g. Corvus, Pyrrhocorax and Coloeus) have increasingly appeared in online records of rearing, acquisition and trade, yet these activities remain ...
Weijia Ren, Yuxiang Sheng, Yuwen Cheng, Changjian Fu, Haozhong Si, Bangzhi Lu, Gesang Dunzhu, Zhongqiu Li   +7 more
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The Palermo Convention/2. The role of Italy in the drafting of the final text

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2019
This paper deals with the open-ended intergovernmental Ad hoc Committee, which was established by the General Assembly of the UN in 1998 for the purpose of elaborating an international convention against transnational organized crime and three additional
Gualtiero Michelini
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Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework

Comparative Migration Studies, 2022
Policy responses to transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) within migrant receiving countries often conflate all organizations which conduct illegal activity in multiple countries based on the mafia or cartel model. This model imagines the TCO to be
Michael Ahn Paarlberg
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein, Elco van Burg, Christine Moser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Sovereign‐Environmental, Social and Governance (S‐ESG) Commitments Promote Financial Inclusion?

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the need to respect humanity, the environment, and society, and the progressive development of social responsibility, environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments and the need for ethical and sustainable finance, this paper aims to examine the impact of sovereign ESG on financial inclusion (FI).
Inès Gharbi, Simplice A. Asongu, Aïda Kammoun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Crime Without Transnational Prosecution

Transnational Criminal Law Review
The enforcement of transnational criminal law is left almost exclusively to national authorities. Public prosecutors and investigating judges play a key role in this field. This generates a seemingly dichotomous situation in which national bodies are faced with crime that is inherently transnational of nature.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME. AN (INTER)NATIONAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

Journal of Defense Resources Management, 2016
For the past two decades organized crime has become a transnational phenomenon, and its impact is still far from being fully known and understood by common people.
Ionel Stoica
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