Articles 
State Capacity as a Conceptual Variable(0)
BY MATTHEW ADAM KOCHER, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. State capacity has become a central concept in security studies. Matthew Adam Kocher argues that common uses of the concept to explain violent conflict are tautological and instead outlines several approaches to disaggregate the state analytically so as to lead to more rigorous empirical research on violence.
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Fighting Corruption to Improve Global Security: An Analysis of International Asset Recovery Systems
BY MARK V. VLASIC & JENAE N. NOELL From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. Typically not counted amongst the battles to be waged in the fight for global security, Mark V. Vlasic and Jenae N. Noell argue that stemming corruption through stolen asset recovery programs has the ability to fortify the rule of law and reduce state impunity in the developing world.
Security and the Olympic Games: Making Rio an Example
BY SAMANTHA R. McROSKEY From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. With the announcement that Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games, global attention has turned to the city’s infamous history of insecurity. Samantha R. McRoskey analyzes the history and causes of the city’s insecurity, and argues that if the Games’ organizers are able to construct and execute a successful plan to ensure spectator safety, the result could be the incorporation of often overlooked developing states into the hosting circuit of the Olympic Games in the future.
Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises
BY NAFEEZ MOSADDEQ AHMED, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. The most urgent dangers to security today come not from terrorism, but from the convergence of global systemic crises, including those of climate change, hydrocarbon energy depletion, economic and financial breakdown, and plummeting food production. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues for the necessity of recognizing the interdependence of these threats on the path towards re-conceptualizing the meaning of ‘security’ today.
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