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A groundbreaking investigation of how traffickers are changing the world?transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments in globalization?s greatest untold story.
How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijack
Doubleday
October 2005
352 pages ISBN: 0385513925 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find
reports of illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons,
laundered money, or counterfeit goods. Illicit trades are
booming and so are the traffickers’ revenues—and their
political influence. Hamstrung bureaucracies in rich and
poor countries alike are losing the battles against these
agile, well-financed, politically powerful, and ever-
shifting networks of determined individuals. Religious and
political zeal drive terrorists, but it turns out that
simple profit is no less a motivator for political upheaval
and international instability. Black-market networks are
stealthily transforming global politics and economics. Filled with fast-paced, vivid examples that are as real as
they are surprising, Illicit shows how we got to this
dangerous point—and stresses the interconnections between
these illegal enterprises, and how they endlessly recombine
to breed new lines of business, distort the economy of
entire countries and industries, enable terrorists and even
take over governments. From pirated movies to weapons of
mass destruction, from human organs to endangered species,
drugs, or stolen art, Illicit reveals the inner workings of
these amazingly efficient international organizations and
shows why it is so hard—and so necessary—to contain them. Illicit offers a fresh, ingenious and compelling vision of
this untold story of globalization. It provides a powerful
new lens with which to assess how today’s world really
works and where it may be headed. Illicit will surely
ignite urgent debate at the highest levels—and change the
way you think about the world.
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