Civil War and the Resurgence of Anglo-Scottish Border Mentalities in the British Middle Shires, 1639–1645

For centuries the Anglo-Scottish borderlands were a region of weak government, endemic violence, border fortresses, and periodic full-scale wars. After the 1603 Union of the Crowns joined Scotland with England and Ireland, James VI & I attempted to pacify the “Middle Shires” of his new realm of “Great Britain.” Despite an apparently successful pacification, using the resources of both the Scottish and English states, the outbreak of the British Civil Wars in 1638 resulted in the region once again becoming militarized. This militarization followed many of the characteristics of the pre-1603 border security system: the renovation of border fortresses, cross-border raids, powerful noble magnates with cross-border political alliances, and the theft or attempted theft of cattle as a means of waging war.

Changes in perceptions of border security influence desired levels of immigration

Security concerns about immigration are on the rise. Many countries respond by fortifying their borders. Yet little is known about the influence of border security measures on perceived threat from immigration. Borders might facilitate group identities and spread fear of outsiders. In contrast, they might enhance citizens' sense of security and control over immigration. We test these claims using survey experiments run on a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans. The findings show that allocating more government resources to border security increases desired levels of immigration. This effect is likely driven by a sense of control over immigration, induced by border security measures even when the number or characteristics of immigrants remain unchanged. Our findings suggest that border controls, which are widely considered as symbols of closure and isolation, can promote openness to immigration.

The Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Nigeria: Corruption a Major Challenge

The proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) is gradually and perilously becoming a transnational organized crime. In Nigeria, this peril assumed its delicate stage with incessant killings by Boko Haram insurgents, herdsmen-farmers clashes, kidnappings, communal and religious crisis, and armed robbery. The drift of this threat is the availability of weapons that are trafficked through Nigeria’s porous borders. Regulating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons has been challenged by several factors such as border porosity, inadequate personnel, lack of equipment, lack of data, weak enforcement, stockpile management, local arms manufacturers. Corruption takes center stage and is the focus of this paper. Corruption directly or indirectly is related to other challenges. The paper recommends that corruption must be addressed if all legal and institutional measures for border security and curtailing the spread of weapons in Nigeria are to achieve their objectives.

Some features of criminal law relations in the field of border security of Ukraine

The article identifies separate features of criminal law relations in the field of border security of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the strengthening of existing and emergence of new threats in the field of national security of Ukraine, in particular, the exacerbation of certain problems of integrated border management, necessitates further rethinking and improving criminal relations in the field of border security of the state. Features of these legal relations are considered by us through the prism of specific species and scientific ap-proaches to their characteristics.It is substantiated that, taking into account the specifics of the sphere of legal regulation, the protective criminal relations, which are specific social relations that arise on the basis of the norms of criminal law between the state and a person who commits a concrete crime, enforcing the border security of Ukraine and which is realized in the form criminal liability or exemption from criminal liability.It is emphasized that an exceptional feature of the investigated legal relationship is their subject composition, due to which their specific characteristics are distinguished. Accordingly, a list of subjects of both regulatory and security criminal relations in the field of border security of Ukraine is determined.Depending on the entity, it is proposed to divide crimes to such that servicemen and employees of the State Bor-der Guard Service of Ukraine, as well as other security sector and defense bodies; crimes that are committed by third parties, which are unlawful of which is related to the field of the border security of the state. Comparison of these groups of crimes reflected in statistical data on the results of operative-service activities of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine for 2018, 2019 and 2020, clearly forms the idea of law and order and legality, the level of quality of criminal-legal regulation of relations in the investigational area, as well as about the state of protecting the state and public interests of Ukraine as a whole.