McMafia a journey through the global criminal underworld

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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.

Contents

pt. 1. The fall of communism.
Death of an American
Bloody lucre
The Mafiya: midwives of capitalism
Spreading the word
pt. 2. Gold, money, diamonds, and banks.
Aliyah
Xanadu I
Xanadu II
The theater of crime
Black and white
pt. 3. Drugs and cybercrime.
Buddies
March of fear
Code orange
pt. 4. The future of organized crime.
The overunderworld
The future of organized crime.

Additional Information

Subjects	Organized crime Transnational crime True Crime Sociology Nonfiction History Electronic books.
Publisher	New York :Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,2008 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group2008
Edition	1st ed.
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: OverDrive READ Format: Kindle Book Format: Adobe PDF eBook Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Requires Amazon Kindle or Adobe Digital Editions or Adobe Digital Editions
Description	1 online resource
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9780307268624 9780307268624
Other	Classic View