Transnational Organized Crime and Natural Resources Trafficking: Funding Conflict and Stealing from the World's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Publisher: Lexington Books
Author(s): Donald R. Liddick Jr.
Date: 2020
Topics: Conflict Causes, Extractive Resources, Governance, Renewable Resources
The processes by which natural resource wealth is generated and diverted from workers and citizens to relatively powerful, elite actors—wheter army commanders, terrorist leaders, rebel chiefs, corporate officers, or government officials—is the central concern of this book. Deletrious outcomes and possible remidies will be posited and discussed. The goal, admittedly ambitious, is to provide a coherent synthesis of our knowledge concerning the criminal trafficking in diamonds, ivory, timber, wildlife, and precious gems and minerals—processes which implicate not only transnational criminal networks, but also geo-politics, international trade and finance, and patterns of consumption.