CONTENTS:

• Internet Resources
• Books  
• Audiovisual Materials  
• Related Bibliographies

Internet Resources:

United States Department of State, International Programs

• The Fight Against Bribery and Corruption
       http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/bribes
   

• Chinese Alien Smuggling
      http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/chinaaliens/homepage.htm
   

• Global Forum on Fighting Corruption
      http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/integrity/
  
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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  

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 

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 CSRT

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  

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

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