Security Council “Legislation” on Foreign (Terrorist) Fighters

Why Foreign Fighters? Historical Perspectives and Solutions

Insurgencies that recruit foreign nationals to join rebel groups in various civil wars around the globe are a source of growing concern to policymakers. Despite attention focused on recent Islamist groups, foreign fighters are a phenomenon that is neither new nor uniquely Islamic. In conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Afghanistan War, insurgencies consistently recruited foreigners by f...

FOREIGN FIGHTERS Trends , Trajectories & Conflict Zones

Estimating the Effects of Foreign Bribery Legislation

Foreign bribery the payment of bribes across borders poses a classic collective action problem in theory. A firm may extract benefits through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country bearing the associated costs of governmental corruption, and hence while eliminating foreign bribery may be in the best interests of all who are engaged with the global economy, the...

Foreign Aid Designed to Diminish Terrorist Atrocities can Increase Them

A domestic power faces an enemy and commits terrorist atrocities to increase the likelihood of victory. A foreign patron can grant aid to the power but prefers fewer or no atrocities. The domestic power responds by acquiescing in the creation of uncontrollable paramilitaries that commit even more atrocities. Once the paramilitaries are set up, aid flows and the atrocity level is high. Now suppo...

Social security related legislation in 1978.

About 58,000 Indochina refugees worked in OASDHI-covered employment in the period 1975-76 and acquired at least 1 quarter of coverage (table 3). This figure represents about 43 percent of those to whom a social security number was issued and processed through the end of 1976. Fifty-three percent of the men workers issued numbers had acquired at Ieast 1 quarter of coverage, compared with 32 perc...