Protecting Politics

Poisoning the Arab Spring: emerging criminal markets

...Abajo la versión en español As the swathe of countries from Libya in North Africa to Syria in West Asia transition through their shift from authoritarian regimes through civil conflicts, political ...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

New Paths in the Americas

...Transnational Organized Crime has presented a vexing challenge in the Americas. Despite over a half century of punitive counter-crime strategies, the criminal organizations operating in the region hav...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Wildlife Watch

Of Presidents and Princes: the global fight against wildlife crime

...Abajo la versión en español There is a sense of optimism around last year’s efforts to curb wildlife crime. Early in the year, CITES afforded greater protection to marine and tree species; wildli...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Organized crime on cyber-steroids

...2013 was, in many ways, the year that the world woke up to the extent to which the internet has really changed the game completely for organized crime.  While we have long waxed lyrical about the pot...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

2014: A marker of the effectiveness UNTOC

...October 2014 will see the holding of the 7th Session of the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The Convention was opened for signature in maf...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Russian organized crime and it s impact on foreign economies

...Russian organized crime represents a new level of professional crime, reflected in its high level of criminal sophistication and the well-developed network of corruption links. Its activities and infl...

Posted on 29 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

The Threat of Russian Criminal Money: Reassessing EU Anti-Money Laundering Policy

...Since the early 1990s, Russian criminal networks have plagued the European Union. The spread of organized crime groups from Russia, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, has brought with it incr...

Posted on 29 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

Russia: Illicit Financial Flows and the Role of the Underground Economy

...There is a basic difference between legal and illegal flight capital. The legal component stays on the books of the entity or individual making the outward transfer. The illegal component is structure...

Posted on 29 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

Hoping for A Brave New World

...Abajo la versión en español The boat was packed. Five hundred men and women were on board, hailing from Ghana, Somalia Eritrea, and a kaleidoscope of other countries. Sailing north from the Libyan ...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Hail to the King (and pay his nephew a bribe)

...Dino Bouterse sits in jail, facing a formidable set of charges. According to prosecutors he traffics drugs, smuggles weapons, and openly consorts with terrorists. While lurid, the case would hardly be...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Kidnapping for Ransom: everyman’s organized crime

...Abajo la versión en español Kidnapping for ransom has been on the rise across the globe, from the West to the Gulf, from Somalia to San Diego, from Syria to the Sahara, and its forms are astonishin...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

European Drug Report: Trends and Developments

...This report is based on information provided to the EMCDDA by the EU Member States, the candidate countries Croatia and Turkey, and Norway. Statistical data reported here are for 2011, or the most rec...

Posted on 20 Dec 2013
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