- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (5 Jan 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0434013501
- ISBN-13: 978-0434013500
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"* 'Moises Naim places much needed light on a hidden subject: how globalization fuels the growth of the international criminal enterprise. His is a compelling narrative of what has been happening around the world and what should be done about it.' John Deutch, former Director, CIA * 'Moises Naim has spotted that most crucial of things, a subject of increasing importance that is very poorly understood. The reporting and analysis he offers fills that gap admirably. His book should provoke much new thinking and, it is to be hoped, new action.' Bill Emmott, Editor, Economist * 'Moises Naim has Identified a key issue, the fact that political order is rapidly decaying in many parts of the world, and that this decay is brought on at least in part by the same factors that promote globalization: fast communications, inexpensive travel, and porous borders. Illicit is provocative reading that makes you see the world differently once you're done with it.' Francis Fukuyama"
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Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit goods. The global nature of this conflicts over these issues was unimaginable just over a decade ago, and yet the resources - financial, human, institutional, technological - deployed by the combatants have reached extraordinary levels of magnitude. So have the numbers of victims. These newly globalised wars pit governments against agile, well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals. Religious zeal or political goals drive terrorists, but profit is no less a motivator for murder and mayhem. "Illicit" is the first book to reveal the full scale of this dark underground. It uncovers the inner workings of the networks of illegal industries and shows the new realities that make them so successful and difficult to defeat. How do pirated movies or CD's find their way to illegal markets worldwide even before they are released? Who manufactures the knock-off Rolex sold for $20? Why is marijuana ever easier to find in schools and universities? Who is behind the illegal immigrants found suffocated to death in the backs of lorries? Clear, provocative and lively, "Illicit" is a crucially timely book that reveals the dark underside of our globalised world.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Moises Naim's "Illicit" represents a good attempt to provide a (rather general) overview of the main types of illicit trade. Unfortunately, the book does not go beyond the overview-level. It is way too superficial and lacks depth. A disappointment...
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Moises Naim provides an in depth non-biased educated account of the various forms of illicit trade across the globe, and what can or cannot be done to dissolve it.
Recognising market forces which drive the industry, including UN treaties within and between countries, internal pressures and conditions of nation states, consumer demand, education, and more, Illicit details attractions and detratctions of illicit goods across the world and the people behind them.
Reading Illicit left me in a puzzling, yet excited, state where I asked myself, 'What next?'
Recognising market forces which drive the industry, including UN treaties within and between countries, internal pressures and conditions of nation states, consumer demand, education, and more, Illicit details attractions and detratctions of illicit goods across the world and the people behind them.
Reading Illicit left me in a puzzling, yet excited, state where I asked myself, 'What next?'
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