Organized Crime and Illicit Trade How to Respond to This Strategic C
“This title is a unique contribution, taking scholarship forward by developing new arguments around the development of organised crime. The latter makes the book particularly relevant, giving it great currency beyond a scholarly audience alone.”Mark Shaw,
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Virginia Comolli
Organized Crime and Illicit Trade
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Organized Crime and Illicit Trade How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains
Editor Virginia Comolli International Institute for Strategic Studies London, UK
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Acknowledgments
This book grew out of a project run jointly by the Security and Development Programme and the Geo-economics and Strategy Programme at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and made possible thanks to the support of HSBC and British American Tobacco. The initial activity of the project was an off-the-record international conference on the strategic implications of organized criminal markets hosted at IISS-Middle East in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain in 2015. The aim of the initiative was to strengthen international understanding of transnational organized crime and its implications; discuss solutions based on on-the-ground experience and concrete case studies; and facilitate the sharing of ideas and best practice among different stakeholders. I am indebted to the 45 senior government and law-enforcement officials, business leaders, representatives from international organisations and influential experts from countries as varied as Colombia, India, Japan, Mali, Georgia, Taiwan and the United States, among others, who attended the event, shared
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