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Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Political- Security Community: Transnational
Crime section
The ASEAN Community is comprised of three pillars, namely the
ASEAN Political-Security
Community, ASEAN Economic
Community and ASEAN
Socio-Cultural Community. Each pillar has its own Blueprint, and,
together with the Initiative for
ASEAN Integration (IAI) Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan Phase II
(2009-2015), they form the
Roadmap for and ASEAN Community 2009-2015.
Asia/Pacific
Group on Money Laundering
To facilitate the adoption,
implementation and enforcement of internationally accepted standards against
money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Available at: http://www.apgml.org/
Consortium of
Non-traditional Security Studies in Asia
Available at: http://www.rsis-ntsasia.org/
Counter
Money Laundering.com
What
is money laundering? Available at:
http://www.countermoneylaundering.com/public/
Drug
Policy Alliance.
Drug Trafficking & Interdiction; drug policy around the world. Available at:
http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/drugtraffick/
FATF-GAFI
Financial
Action Task Force. An inter-governmental body whose
purpose is the development and promotion of national and international
policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Available at:
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/pages/0,2966,en_32250379_32235720_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury
Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (FinCEN) is a network, a means of bringing people and information
together to fight the complex problem of money laundering. Since its
creation in 1990, FinCEN has worked to maximize information sharing among
law enforcement agencies and its other partners in the regulatory and
financial communities.
Available at: http://www.fincen.gov/index.html
George Mason University
Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)
Available
at: http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/
Global Corruption
Report
Annual
Reports from Transparency International.
Available at: http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr
INTERPOL
-Drugs
and Criminal Organizations
INTERPOL’s primary drug-control role is to identify
new drug trafficking trends and criminal organizations operating at the
international level and to assist all national and international law enforcement
bodies concerned with countering the illicit production, trafficking and abuse
of drugs.
-Corruption
The INTERPOL Group of Experts on
Corruption (IGEC) aims to develop and implement new initiatives to further
law enforcement’s efficiency in the fight against corruption. It is a
multi-disciplinary group with members from all regions of the world,
coordinating and harmonizing different national and regional approaches.
Available at: http://www.interpol.int/default.asp
Money
Laundering.com
The leading independent authority on news, guidance and
analysis on money laundering issues.
Available at:
http://www.moneylaundering.com
Office
of National Drug Control Policy: International.
"While the
bulk of our
drug
control program is based at home, there are elements of an effective drug
control program that can only be pursued abroad. Internationally, we and our
allies will attack the power and pocketbook of those international criminal and
terrorist organizations that threaten our national security."
-- White House Available at:
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/international/index.html
U.S.
DEA
Drug
Enforcement Agency. Available at:
http://www.dea.gov/pubs/international/foreign.html
UNODC.
United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
See
Topics for Drugs, Money laundering, Corruption, etc. Available at:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html
World
Money Laundering Report Online.
Password required. Available at:
http://www.wmlro.com/cms/
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The
Art & Science of Money Laundering: Inside the Commerce of the
International Narcotics Traffickers.
Brett
F. Woods. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1998. 199p.
The
money laundering phenomenon; its international dimensions with analysis by
country; recommendations of the G-7 Financial Task Force on Money Laundering.
HV6768 .W65 1998
Beyond
Sovereignty : Issues for a Global Agenda.
Maryann
K. Cusimano. New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. 331p.
BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY takes a fully revised, post-September 11th look at the
pressing global issues that sovereign nation-states cannot solve alone
including
terrorism, disease, refugees, nuclear smuggling, environmental problems, cyber
threats, international crime, and drug trafficking. Maryann Cusimano helps
readers put the events of September 11th into the larger context of
globalization, challenges to globalization, the rise of non-state actors and
trans-sovereign
problems, and the difficulties of managing cross-border problems in a world of
sovereign states. Throughout, the author argues that global issues go beyond
sovereign borders
and
therefore, that solutions must also go beyond sovereignty.
KZ4041
.B49 2000
Blood
From Stones: the Secret Financial Network of Terror.
Douglas Farah. NY: Broadway Books, 2004. 225p.
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush froze all terrorist assets in
traditional financial institutions and money channels. But Al Qaeda and other
terrorist groups have long followed a diversification strategy that has
rendered this crackdown almost useless. Book uncovers the interlocking
web of commodities, underground transfer systems, charities, and sympathetic
bankers that support terrorist activities throughout the world.
HV6433
.A358 F37 2004
Cold
Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World.
Stewart Bell. Etobicoke, Ont: Wiley, 2004. 243p.
While Canada
is officially an ally in the war on global terror, over the past two decades,
the country has allowed itself to become a center of world terrorism, a place
where violent radicals raise money, buy weapons, recruit operatives, plan
attacks and spread their hateful ideologies.
HV6433 .C2 B45 2004
Combating
Transnational Crime : Concepts, Activities and Responses.
Phil
Williams and Dimitri Vlassis. Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001. 390p.
The rise of transnational organized crime in the last decades of the twentieth
century was as unexpected as the end of the Cold War. This emergence is both a
symptom and a result of changes in international relations. It is also a
development that will exacerbate the difficulties of managing globalization.
The first part explores the nature and meaning of transnational organized
crime, its operations in illegal markets, and its organization. The second
part offers a few case studies of specific criminal activity, such as maritime
fraud and trafficking in women and children. The third part focuses on
political, judicial and law enforcement responses.
HV6252
.C65
2001
Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized
Crime, Money Laundering and Corruption.
Margaret E. Beare. Toronto; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
354p.
In this volume, internationally renowned contributors
challenge commonly held views on transnational crime. Offers a wide range
perspectives, including historical analysis, impact on foreign policy,
failure of the war on money laundering.
HV6252 .C757 2003
Dirty
Dealing: the Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime
and Terrorism.
Peter
Lilley. Sterling, VA: Kogan Page,
2003.
Highly organized gangs, from the
Italian Mafia to the Japanese Yakuza, infiltrate every corner of the globe and
money laundering is at the heart of their business. Lilley reveals how the
money is obtained, how it is "washed" and how organizations can
detect and prevent money laundering. Appendixes provide a country-by-country
guide to specific local issues, types of crime and legislation, and a
directory of websites offering further information on money laundering and
related issues.
HV6768 .L55 2003
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.
Kevin Bales.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
298p.
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more
than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's
oldest social institutions. Investigates conditions in Thailand,
Mauritania, Brazil, Pakistan, India, and parts of America and Europe and
reveals the nature of the new slavery and how it has adapted to the
global economy. People are taken by force and held against their wills
through fear. Bales interviews actual slaves, slaveholders, and public
officials to reveal the lives of slaves, including enslaved brickmakers
in Pakistan, sex slaves in Thailand, and domestic slaves in France. He
uncovers the economic and social forces that sustain slavery, from the
corruption of local governments to the complicity of multinational
corporations. He pinpoints just who benefits from the incredible profits
of the new slavery. And he shows how the lives of these slaves are bound
by our own through our purchase of slave-made products or mutual funds
that invest in companies using slave labor. In his conclusion, Bales
offers suggestions for how individuals and governments can combat
slavery and describes successful antislavery actions by international
and local organizations.
HT867 .B35 2004
Drugs,
Transnational Crime and Security in East Asia.
Alan
Dupont.
Canberra : The Australian National University, 1998. 30p.
Explores
the dynamics and security implications of narcotics trafficking in East Asia
and the relationship between drugs and transnational crime.
The
principal conclusion reached is that the illicit drug trade is emerging as a
significant long-term security issue for the region. Narcotics trafficking has
grown enormously in sophistication and volume in conjunction with the spread
of Asian organized crime in the decade since the end of the Cold War, and it
will continue to do so in the absence of effective national and regional
countermeasures.
HV5840
.E18 D86 1998
East
Asia Imperilled : Transnational Challenges to Security.
Alan
Dupont.
Cambridge,
U.K.
: Cambridge
University
Press, 2001.
336p.
Dupont argues that an emerging new class of non-military threats has the
potential to destabilize East Asia and reverse decades of hard-won economic
and social development. Transnational threats stem from overpopulation,
deforestation and pollution, global warming, unregulated population movements,
transnational crime and virulent new strains of infectious diseases.
GE160 .E18 D86 2001
Environmental
Change and International Law : New Challenges and Dimensions.
Edith Brown Weiss. Tokyo,
Japan : United Nations University Press, c1992. 493p.
This
volume
was part of the preparation for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development, held in Rio de Janeiro.
It analyzes issues in international environmental law, draws analogies from
international human rights law, and outlines likely future trends.
Since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm,
international environmental law has been gathering momentum and building
protections against such international problems as ocean dumping,
trans-boundary air pollution, and trafficking in endangered species. The pace
of agreement and the severity of the problems needing to be addressed have
grown. There is constant reference in the papers to mankind's right to a
viable environment. The prospect of a doubled world population in the next
century is seen as one of the most serious barriers to sustainable
development, demanding global cooperation in addressing population growth.
K3585.4 .E568 1992
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed -- and How to Stop It.
Rachel Ehrenfeld. Chicago: Bonus Books, 2003. 267p.
Ehrenfeld contends
that the true face of terror is an international network of corrupt state
leaders, super
wealthy contributors, and drug and crime kingpins. Without
money, especially laundered U.S. dollars, there would be no terror, and this
lively, well-documented primer reveals the sources, the amounts and the armed
terror organizations they support. Not surprisingly, the author is at her best
on the ironies of the West's appetite for drugs, which terror groups exploit
for funding, arms and recruiting those who would undermine a degenerate
Western society. Ehrenfeld's timely expose should heat up public demand for
real progress in the war on terrorism.
HV6431 .E394 2003
Funding
Terrorism in Southeast Asia: the Financial Network of Al Qaeda and Jemaah
Islamiyah.
Zachary Abuza. Seattle, WA:
National Bureau of Asian Research, 2003. 68p.
International
terrorists make widespread use of alternative and informal mechanisms to
raise, move, and secure their funds. Abuza illustrates a variety of methods
that Jemaah Islamiyah uses to raise and transfer funds through charities and
front companies.
Also available at:
http://www.nbr.org/publications/issue.aspx?ID=558e687e-8929-4760-9e5d-09f548f8a1ef
DS501.5
.N385 2003 Vol.14, no.5
Global
Human Smuggling : Comparative Perspectives.
David Kyle and Rey Koslowski. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2001. 374p.
During the past decades, human smuggling across national borders grew
from a low-level border crossing activity in a handful of countries to a
diverse multibillion dollar business spanning the entire globe. But how well
do we understand it? This volume explores the global dimensions of human
smuggling in several forms and regions, examining its deep social, economic
and cultural roots and its broad political consequences. Part 1 discusses the
sociohistorical context and contemporary diversity of human smuggling of
migrants, asylum-seekers, and those tricked into slavery. Part 2 presents high
profile case studies. Part 3 looks closely at the legal construction of
victimized women trafficked into slavery; social construction of smuggled
immigrants; and the sanctioning of unauthorized employment of illegal
immigrants.
JV6201 .G56 2001
The Global
Underworld :
Transnational Crime and the United States.
Don
Liddick.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
159p.
Primarily descriptive in purpose, this work provides an
overview of transnational crime in the United States. He identifies the
principal groups operating in the United States and Canada, and provides
chapters on smuggling, money laundering and other financial crimes,
terrorism (somewhat oddly identifying Hamas and Hezbollah as threats to the
U.S.), and responses to transnational organized crime.
HV6252 .L43 2004
Globalization
and Non-Traditional Security Issues: a Study of Human and Drug Trafficking in
East Asia.
Ralf
Emmers. IDSS working paper. No. 62 Singapore : Institute of Defence and
Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, the Republic of
Singapore, 1998-
March 2004. 26p.
This paper focuses on illicit drug and human trafficking in China and
Southeast Asian countries and examines these categories of transnational crime
in the context of a globalizing world. It argues that that the protection of
the state and human security against drug and people trafficking will
increasingly require effective transnational cooperation and some surrendering
of state sovereignty.
UA832.8 .I21 2004 NO.62
Handbook of
Transnational Crime and
Justice.
Reichel, Philip L.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
512p.
Covering both transnational crime and international responses to crime,
Reichel intends this handbook to serve as a reference for students and
practitioners seeking knowledge on broad areas of the topic. The handbook
consists of 24 papers drawn from ten countries around the world describing
types of transnational crime, exploring institutional organizations and
instruments for combating transnational crime, and examining regional and
special issues. The material covers terrorism, money laundering, illicit
trade in antiquities, computer crime, environmental crime, trafficking in
human beings, war crimes and crimes against humanity, the origins of
Interpol, the adjudication of international crimes, juvenile justice in the
international arena, and other topics.
HV6252 .H36 2004
Human
Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace.
Rob
McRae and Don Hubert. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 279p.
How Canada's campaign to ban land-mines led to foreign policy initiatives that
focused on the security of civilians in situations of armed conflict.
JZ6368
.H86 2001
Human
Traffic and Transnational Crime : Eurasian and American Perspectives.
Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
161p.
Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal
phenomenon-conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked
globally at two million per year. In "Human Traffic and Transnational
Crime", criminologists, sociologists, and demographers from European,
Siberian, and far-eastern parts of Russia offer the first in-depth,
scholarly study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, their
groundbreaking work defines the motivations behind and reactions to this
horrifying trend.
HQ281 .H86 2004
IDSS
Working Paper.
No. 98: Non-traditional security issues: securitisation of transnational crime
in Asia / Jame Laki -- January 2006.
UA832.8 .I21
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders and the Other Side of
Globalization.
Willem van Schendel and Itty
Abraham.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 2005. 266p.
Offers a new
perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and
the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that
recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the thousands of
illicit acts that take place across national borders every day. They
distinguish between the illegal (prohibited by law) and the illicit
(socially perceived as unacceptable), which are historically changeable and
contested. Detailed case studies of arms smuggling, illegal transnational
migration, the global diamond trade, borderland practices, and the
transnational consumption of drugs take us to Asia, Africa, Latin America,
Europe, and North America. They allow us to understand how states, borders,
and the language of law enforcement produce criminality, and how people and
goods which are labeled "illegal" move across regulatory spaces.
HV6252 .I448 2005
The
Illicit Global Economy and State Power.
H.
Richard Friman & Peter Andreas. Lanham, MD : Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
200p.
Illicit cross-border flows, such as smuggling of drugs, migrants,
weapons, toxic waste and dirty money, have emerged as an increasingly
important source of conflict and cooperation among states and nonstate actors.
HV6252
.I45 1999
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global
Economy.
Moises Naim.
New York : Doubleday, 2005.
340p.
Naim provides
a detailed tour of the major globalized criminal activities: drug production
and distribution, illegal arms dealing, human trafficking, counterfeiting,
money laundering and so on and introduces a host of criminal networks that
profit from them.
Naim creates a picture of illicit trade which demonstrates
that, far from taking place in a shadowy underworld, such activity is
inextricably linked to legitimate commerce and directly affects all of us.
In Naim's view, globalization's "diffusion of power to individuals and
groups" and away from sovereign states has created a "smuggler's nirvana,"
in which the lines between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity are
blurred and criminal networks possess an unprecedented degree of political
influence. Making matters worse, the widening gap between global haves and
have-nots what Naim calls "geopolitical bright spots and black holes" has
increased the incentive for individuals and groups on both sides of the
divide to participate in illicit activities.
HV6252 .N35 2005
Illicit Trafficking: A Reference Handbook.
Robert J. Kelly, et al.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005. 260p.
Offers an
easy-to-grasp overview of this growing modern problem. Defines key terms and
concepts. Offers a brief history. What are the roles
of organized crime and transnational crime in illicit trafficking? Does
immigration foster illicit trafficking? What is the relationship of the
volume of illicit trafficking to globalization? What is the relationship of
the growth of global finance to illicit trafficking? How do worldwide
communication technologies affect illicit trafficking? What are the defining
characteristics of transnational crime groups? What are the relationships
among governments, social structure, and organized crime? Do ethnic
conflicts and state dissolution facilitate illicit trafficking? Do political
instability and military conflict contribute to criminal activities? What
are the trends among transnational crime groups? Can law enforcement operate
effectively in a global environment? How are transnational organized crime
and illicit trafficking related?
HV6252 .K45 2005
International
Handbook on Drug Control.
Scott
B. MacDonald & Bruce Zagaris. Westport, CN : Greenwood
Press, 1992.
454p.
The international illicit drug trade is an ongoing problem that faces the
global community. It influences economic and political development in a
number of countries in the developing world and feeds the habits of addicts in
the developed world. The nature of the game will probably continue because so
many people experiment with drugs and because so much profit is to be gained
in drug sales. The editors wish to increase awareness by educating
readers on what is known about the global narcotics trade.
HV5801
.I575 1992
The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade.
Victor
Malarek. New York : Arcade : distributed by Time Warner Book Group,
2004.
303p.
According to the U.S. State Department, at least
800,000-900,000 impoverished young women, many of them orphans, from
Eastern and Central Europe, are lured with promises of jobs as
waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America.
Instead, they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors
or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to
Israel and Germany. With "ruthless efficiency," in the words of one
European official, Russian and other organized crime syndicates control
this human trade, which offers high profits with little risk of
interference thanks to "complacency, complicity, and corruption" on the
part of national governments and law enforcement.
HQ117 .M26 2004
Reference Guide to Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of
Terrorism.
Paul Allan Schott.
[Washington, D.C.] : The World Bank : International
Monetary Fund, c2006.
1 v. (various paging).
This second edition of the Reference Guide is a
comprehensive source of practical information on how countries can fight
money laundering and terrorist financing. Aimed at helping countries
understand the new international standards, it discusses the problems caused
by these crimes, the specific actions countries need to take to address
them, and the role international organizations play in the process. The
Reference Guide is a valuable tool for establishing effective regimes to
successfully prevent, detect, and prosecute money laundering and terrorist
financing.
K5223 .S36 2006
State
of the World, 2005 : Redefining Global Security.
WorldWatch Institute.
New
York, NY:
Norton,
2005.
237p.
Worldwatch reaffirms the importance of other, less-publicized threats
to global stability and security: the complex interactions between
environmental degradation, poverty, and inequity; growing human populations;
and the international proliferation of deadly weapons. Emphasizing the
opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secure world, State of the
World 2005 addresses a broad range of needed reforms, including those related
to governance, economics, ethics, and education. With easy-to-read charts and
tables.
HC59 .S733 2005
Suppressing Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering.
Jae-myong Koh.
Berlin : Springer, 2006.
243p.
The book analyses the development of international
standards for countering terrorist financing from the perspective of
international criminal law. It is likely to find its value for readers not
only as a monograph on the financing of terrorism but also as a reference
book on the operational and theoretical development of anti-money laundering
strategy following 9/11. In particular, the works of main actors in this
area such as the UN Security Council, Financial Action Task Force, IMF,
World Bank, and APG are dealt with in depth.
K5256 .K64 2006
Transnational Crime.
Jay Albanese.
Whitby, ON : de Sitter Publications, c2005.
188p.
Transnational crime will impact the twenty-first century
much in the same way that earlier technological developments changed the
face of crime in the twentieth century. Includes trafficking in human
beings, intellectual property theft, commercial sexual exploitation of
children, law enforcement response to transnational crime and terrorism, how
we understand different cultures and account for divergent perspectives on
social problems.
HV6252 .T69 2005
Transnational
Crime and Regional Security in the Asia Pacific.
Carolina
G. Hernandez and Gina R. Pattugalan. Quezon City, Philippines : ISDS, 1999.
315p.
The end of the Cold War and the rapid pace of globalization have
unleashed unpredictable changes in global and regional politics. These new
threats include various types of transnational organized crime, such as drug
trafficking, proliferation of small arms, money laundering, cyber and
technology crimes, corruption, illegal migration and smuggling of humans and
political terrorism. Not only have these increased in frequency but they also
have become more multi-faceted and complex in nature, more lethal in tactics,
and more difficult to combat.
HV6252
1999
Transnational
Organized Crime and International Security: Business as Usual?
Mats Berdal and Monica Serrano. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner, 2002. 243 p.
Rapid
growth and global reach appear to have given transnational
organized
crime an unprecedented capacity to challenge states.
Part 1 focuses on the growth over the past quarter century. Part 2 explores
the policy response of the United Nations, the European Union, and the
Organization of American States (OAS) to the rise and growing sophistication
of transnational organized crime. Part 3 considers regional trends and
developments in transnational
organized
crime, and covers cases ranging from the more familiar drug-trafficking
industry of Latin America to the increasingly dominant role of Hong Kong and
Chinese triads in the international criminal underworld.
HV6252 .T734 2002
Transnational
Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies.
Carolyn
W.Pumphrey, editor. Strategic
Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2000. 256p.
Examines
transnational threats, including weapons of mass destruction, cyber threats to
the national infrastructure, and international organized crime. Identifies the
key challenges facing the U.S., paying particular attention to the role of the
military.
Also
available at: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pdffiles/PUB224.pdf
U413.A66
T61 2000
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