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restricted to those illegal goods and services that are in great public demand through monopoly control of an illicit market. There is considerably less consensus, as Table 1 illustrates, that organised crime has exclusive membership, has ideological or political reasons behind its activities, requires specialisation in planning or carrying out specific activities, or operates Table 1 Definitions of Organised Crime in the Research Literature Characteristics Organised Hierarchy Continuing Rational Profit through

has its own constitution, congress, and a judiciary, and its citizens elect by direct voting a governor for a six-year term and representatives to their respective unicameral state congresses for three-year terms. The states are divided into municipalities, the smallest administrative political entity in the country, governed by a mayor or municipal president (Presidente municipal), elected by its residents by plurality. Municipalities can be further subdivided into non-autonomous boroughs or in semi-autonomous

have an international capacity vs. does who do not remains clearly drawn. Westphalian principle of sovereign equality = weighted voting, but national territory remains clearly defined. Constitutional independence but not withdrawal bcz costs in terms of loss of status, influence and economic advantages would be very high. New interpretation of statehood remains unclear Sovereignty hasn’t been transferred to state-like federation but sovereignty increasingly held in common = pooled among gvts

happiness, or satisfaction with life, is currently a major area of research in economics and psychology, most closely associated with new developments in positive psychology. It has also become a feature in the current political discourse in the UK. "There is increasing political interest in using measures of happiness as a national indicator in conjunction with measures of wealth. A recent BBC survey found that 81% of the population think the Government should focus on making us happier rather than

believe at a rate of 77% that the election of Barack Obama will lead to improved French-American relations. This idea is supported among the different parties in France. Regardless of a French person’s political affiliation with their own politics, the majority of supporters within all French political parties lean towards support for Barack Obama. The survey also reveals that the French expect improvements to be made in America’s foreign involvement as well as their impact on the environment. However

same time it refuses a purely subjectivist vision where the social world would be a creation of people and exclusively made of language, ideas and concepts. Some aspects of the social reality are material and can be known and explained in scientific terms whereas some aspects are subjective and can only be interpreted. International Relations, as part of social sciences, has to follow the same pattern according to Critical theory: this academic topic has to be studied both as an external object of study

FINANCIAL CRISIS LECTURE I (12/10) Why Learn Asian Crisis? In an Increasingly Globalized World, Everything Is Connected… Globalization in simple terms is: What’s happening in one part of the world affects your country and your individual life. Let’s see what kind of examples are there in our everyday life:  Security threat (terrorism, organized crime, smuggling, piracy, etc.) is getting more international, owing to developments in communications, transport, and financial technologies

population of almost 61,8 million. Because of its geographical status, Britain has always been a multi-ethnic nation. Immigrant arrived for diverse reasons such as religious persecution or economic reasons. More recently, immigration has become a hot political issue. To start with, we are going to deal with a series of definitions: What is Great Britain? Which countries are in Great Britain? What is the United Kingdom? Where the name “United kingdom” does comes from? What countries make up the United

Brazil: Current Situation and Challenges Nathalie Beghin Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The paper analyses the causes of this inequality in terms of Brazil’s development process, which has traditionally ‘managed poverty’ without making efforts to promote change in the socio-economic order: what the author terms ‘conservative modernisation’. Accordingly, universal education and social security were not prioritised, and urban segregation, rural exclusion, and regressive taxation

There is an inequality in terms of education. Boys are more educated than girls who prefer shorter formations which direct them to the domestic activities and service’s fields. Historically, women were equal in terms of education and scholarship, precisely those who born in 1950. After that only half of the number of women could reach high schools in comparison with men. II) Health and survival There is a social difference or a gap between men and women in terms of life period. the duration