Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains

  • Book
  • © 2018

Overview

Editors:
  1. Virginia Comolli

    1. International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Offers a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime

  • Puts forward a nuanced approach to organised crime through the lenses of conflict and security, development, and technology

  • Explores the strategic impact of organised crime and illicit trade with special focus on conflict and fragile countries

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Threat of Illicit Economies and the Complex Relations with State and Society

    • Vanda Felbab-Brown
    Pages 1-21

  3. Organized Crime as a Threat to Sustainable Development: Understanding the Evidence

    • Tuesday Reitano
    Pages 23-35

  4. IT and Cyber Capabilities as a Force Multiplier for Transnational Crime

    • Camino Kavanagh
    Pages 37-77

  5. Measuring Illicit Trade and Its Wider Impact

    • Karl Lallerstedt
    Pages 79-109

  6. Catalysing and Evaluating Development Responses to Organized Crime

    • Tuesday Reitano
    Pages 111-120

  7. A State-Building Response to Organized Crime, Illicit Economies, Hybrid Threats, and Hybrid Governance

    • Vanda Felbab-Brown
    Pages 121-134

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 135-143
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal activities are harmful, this volume addresses the questions of ‘how?’, ‘for whom?’ and, controversially, ‘are they always harmful?’



The volume is authored by experts with multi-year experience analysing criminal and other non-state activities. They do so through different lenses - conflict and security, development, and technology - engaging academics, practitioners and policy makers. 


They offer a comprehensive integrated response to the challenges of transnational organised crime beyond traditional law-enforcement driven recommendations.

Reviews

“The book provides an overview of the challenges that local and international organizations have to face when dealing with tackling illicit trades. Generally, readers with security and political science background may find interesting the entire book … .” (Stefano Caneppele, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, July, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom

    Virginia Comolli

About the editor

Virginia Comolli is Senior Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic Studies


Vanda Felbab-Brown is a Senior Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution.


Camino Kavanagh is an international consultant and Advisor to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Cyber Security and ICT4 Peace Foundation.


Karl Lallerstedt is Programme Director for Illicit Trade, Financial and Economic Crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and co-founder of Black Market Watch.


Tuesday Reitano is Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.





Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation