Since the publication of the previous volume last year, the field of Politics, Economics and Law has continued to see profoundly challenging issues develop internationally. Amid these dramatic events, as with previous volumes, this issue aims to achieve IAFOR’s objectives of promoting interdisciplinary research by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including papers on the implications of the use of “big data” collection for law enforcement, the long-running war in Afghanistan and the controversial prospect of involving the Taliban in diplomatic negotiations, the Japanese and Korean farming lobbies and their efforts to influence the trade policies of their respective governments, and the implication of the use of cyberspace as a sphere for coercive operations.
