Overview
- Contributes to the emerging body of research on transnational crime
- Rethinks the concepts of sovereignty, the new economic geography, and their relevance to the illicit global economy
- Builds on 80 case studies of places governed by insurgent, terrorist, and transnational criminal organizations
- Catalogues the flows of a range of illicit activities including the trafficking in drugs, weapons, people, and natural resources as well as money laundering and terrorism
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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About this book
“The strength of this book is that it does not look at a single case or even a few disparate examples of drug, weapon, and human trafficking but looks at many patterns—intra-regionally, cross-nationally, and internationally. It is an innovative addition to the literature on the nature of the safe havens—or ‘black spots’—currently being used for illicit activity. This book will make a clear impact on the scholarship of transnational crime and the geopolitics of the illicit global economy.”
—Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University, Denmark
Transnational criminal, insurgent, and terrorist organizations seek places that they can govern and operate from with minimum interference from law enforcement. This book examines 80 such safe havens which function outside effective state-based government control and are sustained by illicit economic activities. Brown and Hermann call these geographic locations ‘black spots’ because, like black holes in astronomy that defy the lawsof Newtonian physics, they defy the world as defined by the Westphalian state system. The authors map flows of insecurity such as trafficking in drugs, weapons, and people, providing an unusually clear view of the hubs and networks that form as a result. As transnational crime is increasing on the internet, Brown and Hermann also explore if there are places in cyberspace which can be considered black spots. They conclude by elaborating the challenges that black spots pose for law enforcement and both national and international governance.
Keywords
- Transnational Crime
- Cyberspace
- Illicit Economies
- Terrorism
- insurgent Organizations
- Political Sovereignty
- Economic Sovereignty
- Law Enforcement
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas
- Black Spots
- Mapping Global Insecurity
- Illicit Commerce
- The Hakkari-Van Provinces
- The Taliban
- The International Drug Trade
- Trafficked Goods
- Trafficked People
- Border Security
- Money Laundering
- Organized Crime
- urban politics
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundations
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Toward Discovering Black Spots Networks
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Extensions and Implications
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Stuart S. Brown is Director of the Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) program and Vice-Chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA.
Margaret G. Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Crime and Black Spots
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Sovereignty and the Global Economy
Authors: Stuart S. Brown, Margaret G. Hermann
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49670-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49669-0Published: 08 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69781-6Due: 30 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49670-6Published: 29 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 250
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, Urban Politics, International Security Studies, Trafficking, Organized Crime