Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century

by Nils Gilman (Editor), Jesse Goldhammer (Editor), Steven Weber (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays introduces the thriving illicit industries and activities within the global economy whose growth challenges traditional notions of wealth, power, and progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441193124
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/24/2011
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Nils Gilman is Senior Practitioner at Monitor 360, a San Francisco based group that helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) .

Jesse Goldhammer is a partner at the Monitor Group and Monitor 360, which helps governments and private sector organizations to undertake strategic, analytic, organizational and institutional transformation. He is the author of The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Table of Contents

Essay Sources viii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction 1

Section I People

1 Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigration Patrick Radden Keefe 27

2 The Sex Trade Sean Flynn 41

3 Global Sex Trafficking Joni Seager 67

4 The Black Market in Human Organs Frederike Ambagtsheer 72

5 The Dark Side of Dubai Johann Hari 83

Section II Drugs

6 Smuggling Made Easy: Landlocked Paraguay Emerges as a Top Producer of Contraband Tobacco Marina Walker Guevara Mabel Rehnfeldt Marcelo Soares 103

7 West Africa's International Drug Trade Stephen Ellis 114

8 The Inland Empire Nick Reding 139

Section III Resources

9 The Illicit Abalone Trade in South Africa Jonny Steinberg 153

10 Toxic Exports: Despite Global Treaty, Hazardous Waste Trade Continues Jennifer Clapp 166

11 The Stolen Forests: Inside the Covert War on Illegal Logging Raffi Khatchadourian 180

12 Blood Oil Sebastian Junger 197

Section IV New Organizations

13 Inside the Global Hacker Service Economy Scott Berinato 215

14 Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? Raymond Baker Eva Joly 232

15 Weapons for Warlords: Arms Trafficking in the Gulf of Aden Andrew Black 241

16 Future Conflict: Criminal Insurgencies, Gangs and Intelligence John P. Sullivan 248

17 Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and The End of Globalization John Robb 261

Conclusion 270

Bibliography 287

Index 294

Editorial Reviews

"This carefully curated selection of provocative and accessible essays helps us come to grips with the dark underside of the global economy, and sheds new light on what we can and should do about it. " --Peter Andreas, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

"Deviant Globalization shows the dark side of global trade, the illicit flows, black markets, and trafficking in drugs and human bodies that are as much a part of the new world (dis)order as multinational corporations and instant financial transfers. Contributors push us towards a more complete moral and political assessment of globalization and the development of better theories to account for power relations, inequalities, and collateral damage. " --Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council

"In the shadows of the move to a globalized economy, in places its uncritical partisans would rather not look, an equally new and equally globalized set of phenomena has arisen. In this pathbreaking book, Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer, and Steven Weber have gone far beyond registering the existence of 'deviant globalization.' They have theorized it, and shown that what crops up at the intersection of ethical disparity and regulatory inefficiency is now a permanent feature of global affairs. Observers of the world will benefit from this insight, while teachers and students will gratefully thank the editors for compiling the evidence in one place. " --Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

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