Due process protections and other constitutional restrictions normally ensure that citizens cannot be tried and punished for political dissent, but these same restrictions interfere with criminal convictions of terrorists and others who pose a nonimmediate but real threat to public safety. To counter these threats, governments may use various subterfuges to avoid constitutional protections—ofte...

Commonly, project managers and researchers agree that identifying risks is the most crucial step in project risk management. Hence, extant research provides various rankings of risk factors. In this paper, we rank the importance of risk factors based on an archive of project risk reports provided by project managers of a large software development company. In contrast to previous research that ...

This paper argues that addressing the underlying structural drivers of disease vulnerability is essential for a 'One Health' approach to tackling zoonotic diseases in Africa. Through three case studies-trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe, Ebola and Lassa fever in Sierra Leone and Rift Valley fever in Kenya-we show how political interests, commercial investments and conflict and securitization all gener...

Theories of mobilization suggest that groups are more likely to resort to violence in the presence of political opportunity structures that afford greater prospects for extracting concessions from the government or better opportunities to topple ruling governments. However, existing efforts to consider the possible influences of political opportunity structures on incentives for violence and ci...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...

Institutional structure and quality of management are the main elements that form political risks. Political threats directly linked to institutional design. risks increase if government mechanisms fail. Increasing reduces positively impacts financial Monthly data from different indices used analyse relationship between Turkey's 2002 2015. According Fourier analysis cointegration, there is a lo...

This paper aims to identify the main risk groups according their significance on imports of agricultural products. After analysis scientific literature, eight risks associated with products import were determined: supply risks, demand production management plus operational logistical infrastructural political policy regulatory and financial risks. In order assess importance all groups, three Mu...

The past few decades have witnessed an increased concern with regulation. Globalization – the increased interaction between people and organizations across national borders – brings regulation to the fore in political debates. Environmental and other risks accentuate the need for common rules. Not least, the transformation of the welfare state and of organizational structures highlights issues ...

Globalisation is a big but controversial issue: What are the major forces for globalisation? Will globalisation bring about more opportunities or more risks? Is globalisation an economic, technological, cultural, social or political issue? Different understanding of and different attitudes towards globalisation affect the process of globalisation differently. Meanwhile, the theories on globalis...

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