Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century

by Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer, Steven Weber

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:	9781441178107
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/24/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(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 principal at Deloitte Consulting, where he helps government, philanthropic and corporate clients develop innovative solutions to vexing challenges. He is the author of "The Craft of Incentive Prize Design" (Deloitte University Press, 2014) and The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Steven Weber is Professor, Political Science and School of Information UC Berkeley, and advisor to Monitor 360, San Franciso, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Section I. People / 1. Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigratio (Patrick Radden Keefe) / 2. The Sex Trade (Sean Flynn) / 3. Global Sex Trafficking /(Joni Seager) / 4. The black market in human organs (Frederike Ambagtsheer) / 5. The Dark Side of Dubai (Johann Hari) /Section II. Drugs/ 6. Smuggling Made Easy: Landlocked Paraguay Emerges as a Top Producer of Contraband Tobacco (Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt, Marcelo Soares)/ 7. West Africa's International Drug Trade (Stephen Ellis) / 8. The Inland Empire (Nick Reding) / Section III. Resources / 9. The illicit abalone trade in South Africa (Jonny Steinberg) / 10. Toxic Exports: Despite Global Treaty, Hazardous Waste Trade Continues (Jennifer Clapp) / 11. The Stolen Forests: Inside the Covert War on Illegal Logging (Raffi Khatchadourian) / 12. Blood Oil (Sebastian Junger) ./Section IV New Organizations/ 13. Inside the Global Hacker Service Economy (Scott Berinato) / 14. Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? (Raymond Baker & Eva Joly) / 15. Weapons for Warlords: Arms Trafficking in the Gulf of Aden (Andrew Black) / 16. Future Conflict: Criminal Insurgencies, Gangs and Intelligence (John P. Sullivan) / 17. Excerpts from Brave new war: the next stage of terrorism and the end of globalization (John Robb)/Conclusion/ Bibliography

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

From the Publisher

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

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

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