Featured Article: A Novel Approach to Reducing Violence and Poverty in El Salvador

● ehill ● November 27, 2019 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Enabling Tax Payments: A Novel Approach to Reducing Violence and Poverty in El Salvador by Ann Low Poorly organized governments collect insufficient revenue to pay for police forces and civil administrations whose staff are consistently well trained, highly motivated, and immune from bribery. Inadequate tax collections generate weak… Read More

Featured Article: Criminal Ethos of Russia…

● ehill ● September 12, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Criminal Ethos of Russia: The Great Western Dilemma of Fighting New Generation Warfare by Egidijus Čiūtas After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin, Russia institutionalized a criminal world and employed it as another instrument of national power. It was talentedly interconnected with the… Read More

Featured Article: The Pursuit of Justice

● ehill ● June 27, 2018 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The Pursuit of Justice: Assistance Needed to Tackle the International Criminal Court’s Prevention Component by Jason Elbert Don’t be a bystander, don’t let it happen again.” Henry Greenbaum, a Polish survivor of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, gave these parting words of prevention to a small group of students… Read More

ICE, CBP update Senate on gang threat to U.S. security

● ehill ● June 21, 2017 ● IA News ● No Comments

On June 21, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary met for a hearing titled “The MS-13 Problem: Investigating Gang Membership As Well As Its Nexus to Illegal Immigration, and Assessing Federal Efforts to to End the Threat.” During the hearing several individuals representing U.S. government agencies, including those representing the… Read More

Greater interagency cooperation needed to thwart transnational organized crime

● ehill ● June 5, 2017 ● IA News ● No Comments

RAND Corporation recently published a report on countering the expansion of transnational criminal networks (TCNs) involved in trafficking drugs, persons, weapons, and other illicit goods. These networks pose a serious threat to U.S. national security and security interests in the Western Hemisphere, especially those that with ties to terrorist groups.… Read More

11th Annual Border Security Expo

● ehill ● March 23, 2017 ● IA Events ● No Comments

April 11, 2017 – April 12, 2017, Demo Day April 13, 2017 The 11th Annual Border Security Expo will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, from April 11-12, 2017, with a demo day on April 13. The Border Security Expo is the world’s… Read More

Featured Article: NORAD: A Model to Address Gaps in U.S.-Mexico Security Coordination

● ehill ● March 21, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: NORAD: A Model to Address Gaps in U.S.-Mexico Security Coordination by Patti Bielling Mexico’s dynamic evolution toward democracy remains a hidden success story to most people in the U.S. The Mexican government’s incremental legislative and election reforms from 1977 to today paved the way for the 2000 election… Read More

State effort to combat illicit tobacco trade

● ehill ● December 7, 2015 ● IA News ● No Comments

Last week the U.S. Department of State issued The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat to National Security, a publication outlining the whole-of-government effort to combat the illicit trade in tobacco. The publication was released on December 2, at a meeting of the Interagency Working Group to Combat Illicit… Read More

IAP 14W (November 2014) Strategic Approach to Combat Transnational Organized Crime

● ehill ● November 18, 2014 ● InterAgency Papers (IAP) ● No Comments

This paper looks at the disjointed efforts, a lack of understanding, and limited motivation to participate that characterize the current state of affairs on combating transnational organized crime, and examines approaches to better address this issue. The authors discuss whole-of-government and partner-nation efforts to combat transnational organized crime.

CCO publishes book on illicit networks

● ehill ● April 5, 2013 ● IA News ● No Comments

The Center for Complex Operations recently published an edited volume addressing illicit networks and U.S. national security. Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization explores many aspects of transnational organized crime...

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