Tag: Trafficking & Organized Crime
8 Articles
- Global Governance
Soft Power with Teeth: Looking Beyond Military Action in Solving the Fentanyl Crisis
About half of Americans polled in September 2023 were in favor of sending U.S. armed forces into Mexico to fight drug cartels. Unfortunately, fentanyl trafficking and the…
March 2, 2024
- Conflict & Security
The Growing Use of Cryptocurrencies by Transnational Organized Crime Groups in Latin America
Across Latin America, transnational criminal organizations, transnational gangs, and extra-regional actors supporting authoritarian regimes are exploiting growing cracks in the…
March 20, 2023
- Conflict & Security
The Illegal Wildlife Trade-Green Militarization Nexus Provokes Unsustainable Environmental Conflict
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has been met with a heavy-handed and increasingly militarized response, or what scholarship has labeled green militarization. This intervention…
January 9, 2023
- Global Governance
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: the Politics of Illicit Markets, States, and the Pandemic
COVID-19 is challenging state capacity in Latin America as political leaders scramble to stem the rate of infection and vaccinate their populations in a region that is among the…
May 19, 2021
- Society & Culture
From the Bottom Up: A Different Context for the Colombian Drug Trade
On July 20, 2018, more than three decades since my first election in 1986, I returned to the Colombian senate under very different circumstances. The most important difference…
January 20, 2021
- Society & Culture
Climate Change in Central America: The Drug War Connection
Ecological destruction by narcotics traffickers is hardly unusual; similar dynamics are reported across Latin America. It is particularly widespread in Central America, however.…
May 13, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Worried about Illegal Drugs? Change the Policy and Think Long-Term
The current policy paradigm is problematically based on a cost-benefit assumption that the benefit of state intervention exceeds the cost of allowing access to drugs. In, …
June 26, 2018
- Online Archive
Global Fight Against Cybercrime: Undoing the Paralysis
As the Internet exploded across the globe in the mid-1990s, the Council of Europe was the only intergovernmental treaty organization to recognize that “only a binding…
March 23, 2013