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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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Books


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
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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. 493
p.
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. 374
p.
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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