When Terrorism and Organized Crime Meet

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Prem Mahadevan
Editor(s): John Thompson
Series Editor(s): John Thompson
Series: CSS Policy Perspectives
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
Publication Year: 2018

This CSS Policy Perspective highlights how terrorism and organized crime are increasingly indistinguishable. In response, they also argue that policymakers should direct their focus toward stabilizing insecure spaces in the West and the developing world. Only by devoting more attention to the so-called violent entrepreneurs operating in these areas, beyond the reach of law enforcement, the authors contend, can we begin to leverage the diplomatic, developmental, economic and policing tools that will be necessary to confront this threat.

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