Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
The FIRST system offers researchers, politicians and the media an authoritative and structured factual reference system on international relations and security trends. It contains high-quality, up-to-date and clearly documented information in areas such as:

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

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

Non-traditional security issues: securitisation of transnational crime in Asia.
IDSS Working Paper No. 98:
Jame Laki -- January 2006.
UA832.8 .I21

Power & responsibility : building international order in an era of transnational threats.
Jones, Bruce D.
Makes the case for forming new international partnerships and revitalizing instruments of cooperation to address global challenges that post-WWII multilateral security systems cannot. Establishes a new conceptual foundation for international security: 'responsible sovereignty,' which entails obligations and duties and attitudinal changes toward other states as well one's own.
JZ5588 .J66 2009

Power, interdependence, and nonstate actors in world politics . Milner, Helen V. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has more and more given way to a recognition of the importance of nonstate actors, nonmilitary forms of power, interdependence, international institutions, and cooperation. Drawing together a group of leading international relations theorists, this book explores the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world politics. The topics explored in these chapters include the uneven role of peacekeepers in civil wars, the success of human rights treaties in promoting women's rights, the disproportionate power of developing countries in international environmental policy negotiations, and the prospects for Asian regional cooperation. While all of the chapters demonstrate the empirical and theoretical vitality of liberal and institutionalist theories, they also highlight weaknesses that should drive future research and influence the reform of foreign policy and international organizations.
JZ4841 .P68 2009

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

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