Bibliograph

McMafia, a journey through the global criminal underworld, Misha Glenny

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McMafia, a journey through the global criminal underworld, Misha Glenny

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

McMafia

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

162501937

Responsibility statement

Misha Glenny

Sub title

a journey through the global criminal underworld

Summary

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization of organized crime. This book is an encompassing, authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether discussing the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, or Chinese labor smugglers, Misha Glenny makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Pt. I: The fall of communism. Death of an American ; Bloody lucre ; The Mafiya--midwives of capitalism ; Spreading the word -- Pt. II: Gold, money, diamonds and banks. Aliyah ; Xanadu I ; Xanadu II ; The theatre of crime ; Black and white -- Pt. III: Drugs and cybercrime. Buddies ; March of fear ; Code orange -- Pt. IV: The future of organized crime. The overunderworld ; The future of organized crime

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