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Offering a global history of piracy, ranging from the Vikings and Wako pirates in the Middle Ages to modern day Somali pirates, Lehr delves deep into what motivates pirates and how they operate. He also illuminates the state's role in the development of piracy throughout history: from privateers sanctioned by Queen Elizabeth to pirates operating off the coast of Africa taking the law into their own hands. After exploring the structural failures which...
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"From the Russian mafia to Chinese Triads, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and Latin American drug cartels, the nature and incidence of transnational crime is a serious threat to American security, both at national and individual levels. America's porous borders make it relatively easy for criminal foreigners to establish their organizations within the United States. Moreover, there are well-established groups already present in the United States that are...
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An exposé on the hidden side of global wealth and power, this book explores what is perhaps the most mysterious aspect of global society today. The world of offshore finance is one of dummy companies, shadow bank accounts, post office boxes, foreign registries, and the like, which allow giant corporations--such as Wal-Mart, British Petroleum, and Citigroup--to keep huge profits out of sight of investors, regulators, and the public. A third of the...
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Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in a stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA investigating the dynamics of illegal trade circulating around the world--from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. Global Outlaws peels away the layers...
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Fake handbags, watches, shoes, perfumes-the business of counterfeit products is the largest underground industry in the world, generating hundreds of billions of dollars for the perpetrators while sapping the economy, putting lives in jeopardy, and funding organized crime in the process. This CNBC program reports on what has become a global crime spree, in which goods are produced and consumed in a world of high risk and high reward. Viewers discover...
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Terrorist Cop is a colorful, haunting, and highly graphic tale of New York City homicide detective Morty Dzikansky. Dzikansky's career began with a yarmulke on his head, patrolling Brooklyn's streets, and going undercover to catch a band of Torah thieves. Post 9/11, the NYPD sent Dzikansky to Israel to monitor suicide bombings as part of Commissioner Ray Kelly's plan to protect New York from further terror which led to him becoming an expert on suicide...
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"In Beyond Convergence: World Without Order, edited by Hilary Matfess and Michael Miklaucic (published 2016), a range of different authors - amongst them several staff members and experts from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime - examine different areas where a range of illicit actors (international terrorists, globally networked insurgents, and transnational criminal organisations) exploit, thrive on and keep fragile states."--Provided...
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