May 2015

The subject question has been in debate ever since the ‘Pivot’ policy was announced during the Obama-Clinton Administration. The recent hype of the Japanese Prime Minister’s state visit to the United States to cement a revision of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty pushed the subject issue into a higher level of discussion among political analysts in the U.S. as well as elsewhere...

The cooperation among nations regarding law enforcement and criminal justice dates back a century ago. In 1914, the idea of INTERPOL was born at the first International Criminal Police Congress, held in Monaco. The official International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) was created in 1923, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, on the initiative of Dr Johannes Schober, president of the Vienna Police....