Transnational environmental crime in the Asia Pacific: an 'un(der)securitized' security problem?
While other forms of transnational crime in the Asia Pacific have been securitized - that is, represented by policy elites and security actors as crucial or existential threats to national and regional security - transnational environmental crime has been un(der)securitized. It warrants little menti...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 499 - 523 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2007
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