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The drug war in Mexico has caused some U.S. analysts to view Mexico as a failed or failing state. While these fears are exaggerated, the problems of widespread crime and violence, government corruption, and inadequate access to justice pose grave challenges for the Mexican state. The Obama administration has therefore affirmed its commitment to assist Mexico through continued bilateral collaboration, funding for judicial and security sector reform, and building "resilient communities." The author analyzes the drug war in Mexico, explores Mexico's capacities and limitations, examines the factors that have undermined effective state performance, assesses the prospects for U.S. support to strengthen critical state institutions, and offers recommendations for reducing the potential of state failure. He argues that the United States should help Mexico address its pressing crime and corruption problems by going beyond traditional programs to strengthen the country's judicial and security sector capacity and help it build stronger political institutions, a more robust economy, and a thriving civil society.

With researchers increasingly gaining access to confidentiality data through restricted environments, interest has grown in the training of those researchers to protect confidentiality and to use the secure facility effectively.
Researcher training, where it exists, often tends to focus on the 'chalk-and-talk' approach or its digital equivalent, the aim is to ensure that the researchers are informed of their legal obligations and so take responsibility for their actions. Although popular, there are multiple problems with this approach. First, it is of limited pedagogical effectiveness. Second, it assumes that information delivery is the purpose of the training. Third, it does not take account of attendees' attitudes when attending the course. Fourth, it creates an 'us and them' barrier between trainers and trainees.
An alternative approach to training researchers has been in place in the UK since 2017. It uses good pedagogical practice to increase the effectiveness of training. It uses psychological models of behaviour and attitudes to engage attendees and shape future behaviours. The aim of the course is to build a shared sense of community and trust, rather than information delivery, in line with good data governance practice.
This paper describes the experience of designing and running the course. Multiple organisations and trainers were involved in design and delivery, improving feedback but creating its own problems in terms of trainers' different preferences. Overall, the approach has been highly successful, and has become the model for other organisations. However, the model does place higher demands on the trainer than the traditional model.
We also briefly touch on how the move to online teaching in the pandemic has learned from the face-to-face experience.

Our highly sensitive ethnographic study with anti-money-laundering analysts delves into the understudied link between embodiment and ethics in organizations. We begin by reclaiming the importance of bodies and embodiment in the business ethics literature, which largely assumes preeminence of the mind over the body. We then draw on French phenomenologist Michel Henry's theory of the subjective body to advance our understanding of ethics as endogenous embodied practice rooted in life. Through the experiential realities of our ethnographic work, we show how the two interrelated dimensions in which embodiment occurs (subjective body and organic body) operate at two interrelated levels (subjective and intersubjective experience) to advance theory on the implications of corporeal ethics in organizations. More specifically, by reclaiming and specifying the ontologically embodied and shared dimensions of ethical subjectivity in life, we show the emergence and development of an esprit de corps, which allows embodying collective ethical practice while resisting to continuous external pressures.

In recent years, sweeping changes to the Australian family law system - new services, legal processes, legislation, and a new child support scheme - have been put into place, accompanied by a large research evaluation program. A central plank running through the recent reforms is the need for courts, and those who work with separating parents, to consider whether a child spending equal or else substantial and significant periods of time with each parent would be in his or her best interest and be reasonably practicable. While legal professionals, practitioners and policy analysts wait for the first wave of findings about how the new system is working, now seems like an opportune moment to pause and reflect on the past 5 years of Australian research into shared care. Do we know much more than we did 5 years ago when equal parenting time was first given formal policy prominence? The short answer is 'Yes' but the long answer is that our knowledge still remains at a basic level.

In recent years, sweeping changes to the Australian family law system - new services, legal processes, legislation, and a new child support scheme - have been put into place, accompanied by a large research evaluation program. A central plank running through the recent reforms is the need for courts, and those who work with separating parents, to consider whether a child spending equal or else substantial and significant periods of time with each parent would be in his or her best interest and be reasonably practicable. While legal professionals, practitioners and policy analysts wait for the first wave of findings about how the new system is working, now seems like an opportune moment to pause and reflect on the past 5 years of Australian research into shared care. Do we know much more than we did 5 years ago when equal parenting time was first given formal policy prominence? The short answer is 'Yes' but the long answer is that our knowledge still remains at a basic level.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to elicit tacit knowledge exhibited in expert information system (IS) professionals in a form that can be shared with others; and to develop categorical framework suggesting key content areas of tacit knowledge in the requirements analysis domain.Design/methodology/approach– Requirements analysis is selected as the main focus of this study due to the importance of this phase to the success of IS development and the nature of requirements analysis tasks requiring extensive amount of tacit knowledge. The authors used the "storytelling" approach, a semi-structured interview technique for knowledge elicitation.Findings– The study resulted in 132 knowledge items using a qualitative method and categorized them into 14 categories using cluster analysis. The study found that experienced, successful analysts see systems analysis in behavioral, managerial, and political terms and focus heavily on interpersonal, project management, and organizational issues.Research limitations/implications– The limitations in the research sample, or in the recollection capability of the research subjects could compromise the comprehensiveness of the tacit knowledge in the requirements analysis domain; however, the elicited knowledge at least represents important dimensions one might reasonably find in this domain.Originality/value– Very little research has attempted to capture this tacit dimension of system analysts' knowledge. Thus, capturing and transferring the tacit knowledge from experts should help in the evolution of novice to expert system analysts thereby improving both their effectiveness and the quality of the information systems developed.

What practices of (in)securitization involve the notions of border and border control in the European Union? How do these practices operate? How are they assembled? In the resulting assemblage, is the notion of borders – understood as state borders – still relevant for the control of individuals and populations moving across the frontiers of the EU? Drawing on empirical observations and with a specific focus on how border control is translated into different social universes, this article seeks to show that practices of control are routinely embedded in a practical sense that informs what controlling borders does and means. This practical sense is itself informed by different professional habitus and work routines involving deterrence and the use of force, interrogation and detention, surveillance of populations on the move and the profiling of (un)trusted travellers. Its strength varies in relation to its shared dimension by most of the operators, and is adjusted to the materiality of borders as well as to the local contexts in which it is deployed. It activates, or does not activate, the maximal use of various control technologies (satellites, pre-registration and interoperable exchange of data between the state and private bureaucracies, biometrics identifiers, body-scanners). For understanding practices of (in)securitization, actual work routines and the specific professional 'dispositions' are therefore more important than any discourses actors may use to justify their activities.

Nowadays while discussing some social, economic or political issues you will hear a lot about generational differences. It is widely discussed in field of work relations. Motivation is the basic part of work relations and it is main tool to ensure productive and effective work. Employees from different generations have different experiences, goals, and expectations to motivation. Shared service centres become significant part of our economics. The goal of this thesis is to identify generational differences in work motivation sources To reach targeted goal the literature analysis and quantitative research was done. Research took place in one of shared service centres in Lithuania. After literature analysis 2 hypotheses were raised Ha. External self-concept and goal internalization motivation sources are higher for X generation than Y; Hb. Intrinsic process, instrumental and self-concept internal motivation sources are higher for Y generation than X. Goals of research: identify generational differences (X and Y) in sources of motivation; also, identify motivational differences in generations according to other demographic indicators; also identify motivational differences among all shared services employees according to other demographic indicators. After analysis of research data hypothesis Ha was not supported, but hypothesis Hb. was partly supported as instrumental and self-concept internal motivation sources are higher for Y generation than X. Also it was found that instrumental motivation is higher for man in generation Y , than for woman. Analysing data of all shared service centres employees it was found that instrumental and self-concept motivation is higher for man that for woman, also instrumental motivation sours is very important for operational specialists and goal internalization sours for management, coordinators and analysts. Master thesis contains of: introduction, three main parts- theoretical, methodological and analysis, conclusions, recommendations, list of literatures, summary in Lithuania and English and annexes.