Friday, October 20, 2017

Organized crime, illicit economies, civil violence and international order: More complex than you think, Brookings

In this essay, published in the Fall 2017 issue of Dædalus: “Civil Wars & Global Disorder: Threats & Opportunities,” Vanda Felbab-Brown analyzes the multiple threats that organized crime and illicit economies pose to states and the international order, with a particular focus on the security dimensions of the crime-conflict nexus. In discussing the range of responses by states and the international community to the nexus of criminal economies and civil wars, insurgencies, and terrorism, Dr. Felbab-Brown highlights how premature and ill-conceived government efforts to combat illicit economies have counterproductive effects, hampering efforts to suppress militancy and, in some cases, generating dangerous international spillovers of criminality. - Read More

Organized crime, illicit economies, civil violence and international order


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