This collection of essays explores the nexus between international criminals and terrorists engaged in smuggling and trafficking everything from weapons of mass destruction to illegal aliens, potentially upsetting regional stability, undermining United States interests abroad, and threatening national security.
Kimberley L. Thachuk is currently a senior research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University. Previously she was a visiting professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Dr. Thachuk has published widely on International crime, terrorism, and other transnational threats to U.S. national security.
Thachuk has compiled a collection of essays that provide an
overview of the dark side of globalization and establish strong
connections between organized crime and terrorist groups. The work
carefully documents the extent of these transnational
challenges--ranging from narco-terrorism to human trafficking to
small-arms trafficking. The book includes chapters that cover
countries, regions, and international issues. In addition, the US
is treated both as a potential leader in attempts to control
transnational crime and as a venue for it. Many will be surprised
by the extent of human trafficking and forms of slavery within the
US. Each transnational threat is discussed, the security
implications elucidated, and the successes and failures to control
them explained. Each contributor utilizes an interdisciplinary
approach, incorporating diverse insights from disciplines such as
geography and economics. Particularly helpful are discussions of
both the impediments to, and opportunities for, cooperation at the
international (and in some cases interagency) level. The
contributors are academics well versed in policy issues, high-level
analysts from institutions such as RAND and the CIA, and
practitioners with salient experience. Highly recommended.
Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional
collections.
*Choice*
The nexus between organized crime and terrorism is the subject of
Transnational Threats: Smuggling and Trafficking in Arms, Drugs,
and Human Life…This volume is an important contribution to our
understanding of the convergence of transnational crime and
terror.
*Commentary*
Thachuk gathers contributors from organizations such as the FBI,
the CIA, the RAND Corporation, and the Congressional Research
Service to provide examples of the nexus between organized criminal
activity and terrorism around the world. Contributors show how
these activities are detrimental to US interests, how they
destabilize nations or regions, and how terrorists benefit from the
illegal trade in arms, drugs, and human beings. Human trafficking
into the US, smuggling and the Caribbean, South Asian organized
crime and linkages to terrorist networks, and drug smuggling in
Central Eurasia are some areas explored.
*Reference & Research Book News*
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