State-Criminal Enterprise

State-Criminal Enterprise

State-Criminal Enterprise Criminal enterprises, once primarily associated with localized crime, are increasingly becoming a destabilizing force beyond national borders. A 2006 report from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime details how...
Identifying NIAC Series – Conclusion

Identifying NIAC Series – Conclusion

Identifying NIAC Series – Conclusion Editors’ note: This post appears as a conclusion for the series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series features alternating posts with...
Identifying NIAC Series – The Geography of War and the Nature of IHL

Identifying NIAC Series – The Geography of War and the Nature of IHL

Identifying NIAC Series – The Geography of War and the Nature of IHL Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series...
Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge...
Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University...
Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict Having spent the better part of a decade researching, writing, thinking, and teaching non-international armed conflict (NIAC), I am delighted to share the culmination of that work: my recent...