James Cockayne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Cockayne |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Cockayne |
| SIGNATURE | COCKAYNE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | NationsUniversity |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery
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Can organised crime shape post-war transitions? Evidence from Sicily
Many developing states that have undergone post-war transitions have emerged with significant organised crime presences and systematic corruption. Why? Is the criminalisation of post-war transitions inevitable? Is there something about them that is inherently criminogenic? Are criminal groups mere by-products of, and passive bystanders to, these transition processes, or do they actively shape them? This article seeks to shed light on these questi…
Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime
Economic globalization has facilitated transnational criminal and terrorist activity since the mid-nineteenth century, thus incentivizing closer international law enforcement cooperation. This chapter explores the history of that cooperation, the contours of which are shaped by the interaction of the institutions of sovereignty and the reality of power in the international system. It argues that international law enforcement cooperation to counte…
Justice for Syria
In the absence of action by the Security Council to ensure accountability for international crimes committed in the war in Syria, on 21 December 2016 the General Assembly created an International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to assist in investigations and prosecutions. In some ways, this move by the General Assembly was novel, while in others it built on established precedents. This article explains what the Mechanism is and how it will …
Hidden Power
What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia?Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic lo…
The Anti-slavery Potential of International Criminal Justice
The articles in this Special Issue make clear that international criminal justice will not eradicate modern slavery. However, they also make clear that the answer to the question ‘What role does international criminal justice have to play in the fight against modern slavery?’ is not simply: ‘None.’ Understanding the specific utility of international criminal justice in the fight against slavery requires understanding international criminal justic…
Private Military and Security Companies
The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs
Confronted by non-conventional non-state military forces enjoying high – but very localized – social legitimacy, the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) struggled between 2004 and 2007 to embed the use of force in a larger strategy of state consolidation. The article explores the confrontations between MINUSTAH and unconventional armed groups in Haiti during this period. It traces MINUSTAH’s operations against criminal gangs, and the resul…
Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Conclusion
This conclusion reviews the Special Issue's perspective on organized crime as both potential ‘enemy’ and ‘ally’ of peace processes. The social and economic power wielded by organized crime is highlighted, pointing to the role that peace operations play as an intervening variable between individuals/communities and the environments in which they operate. Peace operations use a range of tactics, from coercion to co-option, working with or against o…
Winning Haiti's Protection Competition
This article draws lessons from the experiences of international involvement in Haiti from 1990 to the present day. It argues that if the model of liberal, responsible government championed by the international community is to provide a resolution to the ongoing violence and instability in Haiti, then Haitian society will first have to be wooed away from coercive ‘protection’ by local and transnational organized crime. However, it argues that pea…
Introduction
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community's fight against organized crime. In venues as diverse as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq and West Africa, multiple international interventions have struggled with a variety of protection rackets, corruption and trafficking in a wide range of licit and illicit commodities: guns, drugs, oil, cars, diamonds, timber - and human beings. This introduction to the Sp…
The global reorganization of legitimate violence
Although long hidden from the public gaze of international humanitarian law, military entrepreneurialism has played a key role in the global organization of legitimate violence. By examining historical changes in the role and legal treatment of military entrepreneurs, the author sheds light on the contemporary “resurfacing” of privately organized violence in the form of private military companies, and its broader implications for international hu…
Creeping Unilateralism
In this article, it is argued that the genesis of the Iraq Crisis of 2003 within the Security Council can be traced to earlier patterns of acquiescence by Council members in US and UK unilateral enforcement action in Iraq. By the time this acquiescence ceased, between 1994 and 1996, UK and US enforcement policy was set and would culminate in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003
Hybrids or Mongrels? Internationalized War Crimes Trials as Unsuccessful Degradation Ceremonies
Using the framework for analysis of criminal trial provided by Harold Garfinkel in 1961 in his Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies, the author examines how hybrid war crimes trials balance appeals to international and local communities and their moralities. At present, he argues, hybrid tribunals risk descending into moral confusion, defeating the process whereby war crimes trials transform local morality to align it with internationa…
The Ralph Bunche Centennial
A century after the birth of a father of peacekeeping, Ralph Bunche, UN peace operations have changed dramatically. The narrowly-defined, lightly-armed, strictly neutral operations of Bunche's day have become complex, multidisciplinary state-building operations. Then, peacekeeping buttressed essentially self-enforcing cease-fires; now, it aims to build the foundations of a self-renewing peace. These changes reflect six deeper shifts: the end of t…
Special Court for Sierra Leone
This article examines two motions for recusal of Appeals Chamber judges in the Special Cout for Sierra Leone. In early March 2004, defendants before the Special Court alleged to be key figures in the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) succeeded in removing the President of the Special Court, Judge Geoffrey Robertson QC, from hearing their cases. This may also have led to Robertson's removal by his fellow judges as President of the Court. In the aft…
Islam and international humanitarian law
Dans un monde perçu comme un «choc de civilisations», l'Islam et le droit international humanitaire apparaissent de plus en plus comme concurrents. Les comparaisons déjà tentées de l'Islam et du droit humanitaire présentent chacun des systèmes comme statique et monolithique et dénotent une certaine vision «orientaliste». Si l'on passe en revue le rôle des protagonistes musulmans dans l'évolution du droit humanitaire de 1856 à nos jours, on peut d…
Winning Haiti's Protection Competition
This article draws lessons from the experiences of international involvement in Haiti from 1990 to the present day. It argues that if the model of liberal, responsible government championed by the international community is to provide a resolution to the ongoing violence and instability in Haiti, then Haitian society will first have to be wooed away from coercive ‘protection’ by local and transnational organized crime. However, it argues that pea…
Introduction
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community's fight against organized crime. In venues as diverse as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq and West Africa, multiple international interventions have struggled with a variety of protection rackets, corruption and trafficking in a wide range of licit and illicit commodities: guns, drugs, oil, cars, diamonds, timber - and human beings. This introduction to the Sp…
Islam and international humanitarian law
Dans un monde perçu comme un «choc de civilisations», l'Islam et le droit international humanitaire apparaissent de plus en plus comme concurrents. Les comparaisons déjà tentées de l'Islam et du droit humanitaire présentent chacun des systèmes comme statique et monolithique et dénotent une certaine vision «orientaliste». Si l'on passe en revue le rôle des protagonistes musulmans dans l'évolution du droit humanitaire de 1856 à nos jours, on peut d…
Conclusion
This conclusion reviews the Special Issue's perspective on organized crime as both potential ‘enemy’ and ‘ally’ of peace processes. The social and economic power wielded by organized crime is highlighted, pointing to the role that peace operations play as an intervening variable between individuals/communities and the environments in which they operate. Peace operations use a range of tactics, from coercion to co-option, working with or against o…
Creeping Unilateralism
In this article, it is argued that the genesis of the Iraq Crisis of 2003 within the Security Council can be traced to earlier patterns of acquiescence by Council members in US and UK unilateral enforcement action in Iraq. By the time this acquiescence ceased, between 1994 and 1996, UK and US enforcement policy was set and would culminate in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003
The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs
Confronted by non-conventional non-state military forces enjoying high – but very localized – social legitimacy, the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) struggled between 2004 and 2007 to embed the use of force in a larger strategy of state consolidation. The article explores the confrontations between MINUSTAH and unconventional armed groups in Haiti during this period. It traces MINUSTAH’s operations against criminal gangs, and the resul…
The global reorganization of legitimate violence
Although long hidden from the public gaze of international humanitarian law, military entrepreneurialism has played a key role in the global organization of legitimate violence. By examining historical changes in the role and legal treatment of military entrepreneurs, the author sheds light on the contemporary “resurfacing” of privately organized violence in the form of private military companies, and its broader implications for international hu…
The Ralph Bunche Centennial
A century after the birth of a father of peacekeeping, Ralph Bunche, UN peace operations have changed dramatically. The narrowly-defined, lightly-armed, strictly neutral operations of Bunche's day have become complex, multidisciplinary state-building operations. Then, peacekeeping buttressed essentially self-enforcing cease-fires; now, it aims to build the foundations of a self-renewing peace. These changes reflect six deeper shifts: the end of t…
Islam and international humanitarian law
Dans un monde perçu comme un «choc de civilisations», l'Islam et le droit international humanitaire apparaissent de plus en plus comme concurrents. Les comparaisons déjà tentées de l'Islam et du droit humanitaire présentent chacun des systèmes comme statique et monolithique et dénotent une certaine vision «orientaliste». Si l'on passe en revue le rôle des protagonistes musulmans dans l'évolution du droit humanitaire de 1856 à nos jours, on peut d…
Special Court for Sierra Leone
This article examines two motions for recusal of Appeals Chamber judges in the Special Cout for Sierra Leone. In early March 2004, defendants before the Special Court alleged to be key figures in the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) succeeded in removing the President of the Special Court, Judge Geoffrey Robertson QC, from hearing their cases. This may also have led to Robertson's removal by his fellow judges as President of the Court. In the aft…
Hybrids or Mongrels? Internationalized War Crimes Trials as Unsuccessful Degradation Ceremonies
Using the framework for analysis of criminal trial provided by Harold Garfinkel in 1961 in his Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies, the author examines how hybrid war crimes trials balance appeals to international and local communities and their moralities. At present, he argues, hybrid tribunals risk descending into moral confusion, defeating the process whereby war crimes trials transform local morality to align it with internationa…
The Ralph Bunche Centennial
A century after the birth of a father of peacekeeping, Ralph Bunche, UN peace operations have changed dramatically. The narrowly-defined, lightly-armed, strictly neutral operations of Bunche's day have become complex, multidisciplinary state-building operations. Then, peacekeeping buttressed essentially self-enforcing cease-fires; now, it aims to build the foundations of a self-renewing peace. These changes reflect six deeper shifts: the end of t…
The global reorganization of legitimate violence
Although long hidden from the public gaze of international humanitarian law, military entrepreneurialism has played a key role in the global organization of legitimate violence. By examining historical changes in the role and legal treatment of military entrepreneurs, the author sheds light on the contemporary “resurfacing” of privately organized violence in the form of private military companies, and its broader implications for international hu…
Creeping Unilateralism
In this article, it is argued that the genesis of the Iraq Crisis of 2003 within the Security Council can be traced to earlier patterns of acquiescence by Council members in US and UK unilateral enforcement action in Iraq. By the time this acquiescence ceased, between 1994 and 1996, UK and US enforcement policy was set and would culminate in Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003
Conclusion
This conclusion reviews the Special Issue's perspective on organized crime as both potential ‘enemy’ and ‘ally’ of peace processes. The social and economic power wielded by organized crime is highlighted, pointing to the role that peace operations play as an intervening variable between individuals/communities and the environments in which they operate. Peace operations use a range of tactics, from coercion to co-option, working with or against o…
Winning Haiti's Protection Competition
This article draws lessons from the experiences of international involvement in Haiti from 1990 to the present day. It argues that if the model of liberal, responsible government championed by the international community is to provide a resolution to the ongoing violence and instability in Haiti, then Haitian society will first have to be wooed away from coercive ‘protection’ by local and transnational organized crime. However, it argues that pea…
Introduction
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community's fight against organized crime. In venues as diverse as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq and West Africa, multiple international interventions have struggled with a variety of protection rackets, corruption and trafficking in a wide range of licit and illicit commodities: guns, drugs, oil, cars, diamonds, timber - and human beings. This introduction to the Sp…
Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Private Military and Security Companies
The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs
Confronted by non-conventional non-state military forces enjoying high – but very localized – social legitimacy, the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) struggled between 2004 and 2007 to embed the use of force in a larger strategy of state consolidation. The article explores the confrontations between MINUSTAH and unconventional armed groups in Haiti during this period. It traces MINUSTAH’s operations against criminal gangs, and the resul…
Hidden Power
What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia?Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic lo…
The Anti-slavery Potential of International Criminal Justice
The articles in this Special Issue make clear that international criminal justice will not eradicate modern slavery. However, they also make clear that the answer to the question ‘What role does international criminal justice have to play in the fight against modern slavery?’ is not simply: ‘None.’ Understanding the specific utility of international criminal justice in the fight against slavery requires understanding international criminal justic…
Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime
Economic globalization has facilitated transnational criminal and terrorist activity since the mid-nineteenth century, thus incentivizing closer international law enforcement cooperation. This chapter explores the history of that cooperation, the contours of which are shaped by the interaction of the institutions of sovereignty and the reality of power in the international system. It argues that international law enforcement cooperation to counte…
Justice for Syria
In the absence of action by the Security Council to ensure accountability for international crimes committed in the war in Syria, on 21 December 2016 the General Assembly created an International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to assist in investigations and prosecutions. In some ways, this move by the General Assembly was novel, while in others it built on established precedents. This article explains what the Mechanism is and how it will …
Can organised crime shape post-war transitions? Evidence from Sicily
Many developing states that have undergone post-war transitions have emerged with significant organised crime presences and systematic corruption. Why? Is the criminalisation of post-war transitions inevitable? Is there something about them that is inherently criminogenic? Are criminal groups mere by-products of, and passive bystanders to, these transition processes, or do they actively shape them? This article seeks to shed light on these questi…
Working with the Financial Sector to Correct the Market Failure of Modern Slavery
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · International law (7 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Organised crime (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · International Law and Human Rights (5 works)