This special issue addresses a range of fundamental issues related to security economics, which is defined as the study of the causes, forms, and effects of the human drivers of insecurity, which include terrorism and organized crime as well as the related policies. Most of the papers of this...

This paper examines levels and trends in human development in the 27 European Union Member States and four of the EU’s nearest neighbours (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Turkey). Its starting point is the UNDP Human Development Index but the paper goes beyond the HDI in three main ways....

The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...