DEA Drug Enforcement Agency.
Available at: http://www.dea.gov/pubs/international/foreign.html

Drug Policy Alliance  Drug Trafficking & Interdiction; drug policy around the world.
Available at: http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/drugtraffick/

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 cannabis, cocaine, heroin and synthetic drugs.
Available at: http://www.interpol.int/Public/Drugs/default.asp

Narco-Terrorism: International Drug Trafficking and Terrorism - a Dangerous Mix. Hearing before the US. Senate, May 20, 2003. 
Available at: http://www.mipt.org/pdf/s-hrg108-173.pdf

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

UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Drug supply, demand and reduction.
Available at: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html

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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 CSRT  

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 CSRT  

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  

The Culture of Violence.
Kumar Rupesinghe. Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c1994. 292p. 
The impact of drug trafficking on Columbian culture.
HM281 .C89 1994  

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

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 CSRT

Global Collective Action. 
Todd Sander.  Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004. 299p.
Although the global community has achieved some success in endeavors such as eradicating smallpox, efforts to coordinate nations' actions in others--such as the reduction of drug trafficking--have not been sufficient. Identifying the factors that promote, or inhibit, successful collective action for an ever-growing set of challenges associated with globalization, Todd Sandler applies them to promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars 
JZ1308 .S26 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

Grey-Area Phenomena in Southeast Asia : Piracy, Drug Trafficking and Political Terrorism.
Peter Chalk.  Canberrra, Australia : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1997. 117p. This study examines three specific areas of concern in Southeast Asia: maritime piracy; drug production and trafficking (with a primary emphasis on the Golden Triangle region of Laos, Burma and Thailand); and political terrorism. Though these threats are not new to the region, all three issues have taken on greater prominence in recent years. Also, the mechanisms for addressing these threats are not well developed, and there is a need for greater relevance in national security calculations in many Southeast Asian states.
UA830 .C5244 1997

IDSS Working Paper
Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, the Republic of Singapore, 1998-
No. 62 : Globalization and non-traditional security issues: a study of human and drug trafficking in East Asia / Ralf Emmers -- March 2004.
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

Nontraditional Warfare : Twenty-First Century Threats and Responses.
William R. Schilling. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc., 2002. 347 p. See: chapter 9.
Analyzes the most current prevalent threats to U.S. national security, ranging from weapons of mass destruction to electronic, information, and urban warfare. Contributors introduce innovative technological, policy, and organizational solutions to the most alarming nontraditional threat scenarios.
UA23 .N66 2002 

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. 
Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 279p.
Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English-language readers, explaining the Taliban's rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban. He also describes the new face of Islamic fundamentalism and explains why Afghanistan has become the world center for international terrorism.  
DS371.2 .R367 2000 CSRT

Traffick : the illicit movement of people and things.
Gargi Bhattacharyya. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2005.
This book is less about illicit markets in drugs, weapons, and people than it is a critical analysis of the global capitalist system that has produced and relies on this "underbelly."

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. 243p. 
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