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This text investigates the emergence of transnational policing practises in response to drug trafficking and organized crime in ten Caribbean territories. It addresses questions of accountability and explores how understandings of national sovereignty are shifting in the face of domestic and global insecurity.

This book explores concepts of quality of life in older age in the theoretical literature and presents the views of a national sample of people aged sixty- five years or older. It offers a broad overview of the quality of life experienced by older people in Britain using a number of wide ranging indicators, including:. Health. Hobbies and interests. Home and neighbourhood. Income. Independence. Psychological wellbeing. Social and family relationships. The result is a fascinating book enlivened by rich data ¿ both quantitative and qualitative ¿ drawn from detailed surveys and interviews with al

AbstractThe evolution of cooperation scholarship develops evolutionary stable theories that explain the presence of cooperation when there are many reasons to defect from cooperation. In this analysis, these theories are tested using the relations between states. Focusing on the direct reciprocity strategies of Tit-for-Tat and Win-stay/Lose-shift and the indirect reciprocity strategies of Cooperative Reputation and Tag, Tit-for-Tat and Cooperative Reputation are found to be robust, while Tags have mixed results. In the end, it is the direct cooperative action by states and their cooperative reputation and not shared characteristics that are most likely to elicit cooperative action in return.