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Territorial disputes is an important area of study in international relations. Most previous researches related to international conflict have been focusing more on ethnic conflict, religious conflict, armed conflict and others. However, there is less attention given to territorial disputes. The current research on territorial disputes have been restricted because of two related conceptual roadblocks. Scholars have a tendency to concentrate on the consequences and not the origins of...

In today’s globalized world, Malaysia is not only a destination for children trafficking for sexual activities, yet it is also being internationally recognized as a source and transit country for numerous syndicates’ operation of the transnational crime. In addition, trafficking in children is a tragic deprivation of human rights mostly in the forms of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Due to its clandestine and complex phenomenon in nature, it poses a great challenge especially...

Border security enforcement is important for the country’s safety in which the Immigration Department is the front liner at the border entrance. The increasing number of illegal immigrants have become a security concern to the local society especially in Northern Malaysia-Thailand. This issue raises the concern of the effectiveness of the Immigration Department’s enforcement at the Northern Malaysia-Thailand border. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness ...

The large amount of vessels or ships that passes through the Straits of Malacca for international trade and transportation of oil had attract the maritime threat especially piracy and maritime terrorism. This is proved when the rate of piracy and maritime terrorism was in a worrisome level. Meanwhile, as for the maritime terrorism, the existence of extreme perpetrators of acts of maritime terrorism such as Abu Sayyaf Group, Al-Qaeda and its Southeast Asian wing, the Jemaah Isla...

The purpose of this research was to reveal the Malaysian police behaviour-attitude towards policewomen roles in the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions at the conflicting regions. This research had used self-administered survey questionnaire with 5-point Likert Scale. Respondents were selected using stratified sampling from the police personnel list who had served at the UN Peacekeeping Missions and 380 respondents had participated in the survey. Validated questionnaires were used in this...