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    <body><![CDATA[An eye-opening look at how organized crime groups have atomized into specialized fields like corporations. Almost every process and leg of a criminal enterprise can be outsourced to contractors and subcontractors of slave traffickers, organ &quot;donors,&quot; and brand counterfeiters.<br/><br/>On...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21966081">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good starting point for understanding the worldwide illicit economy and its links with organized crime. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good stuff - a really good overview of globalization from the perspective of law enforcement. Naim shows surprising links between different kinds of criminal enterprises - bootlegging and terrorism, for example. He also shows ways in which criminal activity is becoming more and more embedded not onl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8388089">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[very interesting, but it repeats the same notions over and over, which is either a good way to ensure researchers get all the basic information no matter how limited their search and brief their reading. or, it is a good way to pad the book so it's a longer read and feels more substantial.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very provocative so far.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy]]>
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    <![CDATA[Illicit activities are exploding worldwide. The onslaught of globalization has unleashed a tidal wave of bad stuff--everything from arms trafficking, human smuggling, and money laundering to music bootlegging. Here is the dark side of globalization: the mushrooming underground economy. Moisés Naím explores this murky world in his book <em>Illicit</em>. Naím is the editor of the relaunched magazine <em>Foreign Policy</em> and a former executive director of the World Bank and Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela. In <em>Illicit</em>, he unties the connections between the Colombian cocaine dealer, the New York banker steering money to offshore tax havens, the Albanian forcing women into prostitution, and the Chinese market stall-holder selling counterfeit DVDs. <p> Naím reports that legitimate global trade has doubled since 1990 from $5 to $10 trillion. Meanwhile, money laundering has gone up tenfold, exceeding $1 trillion a year. Smuggling and money laundering have always existed, but Naím shows how they have increased at a staggering pace in the wake of globalization, despite new government controls since 9/11. The main culprits are the collapse of the Iron Curtain and state deregulation. As the reach of organized crime has expanded, governments have failed to keep up. Naím illustrates the problems with stories about A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb who sold nuclear technology to North Korea and Libya; Walter C. Anderson, an American who was accused of hiding $450 million in offshore accounts to evade taxes; and Vladimir Montesinos, the Peruvian intelligence czar who is on trial for trafficking drugs and arms. The book, while a little dry, will be interesting to policy buffs and aspiring crooks alike. <em>--Alex Roslin</em></p>]]>
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  <published>2006</published>
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