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The Nexus Between Organised Crime and Terrorism: Types and Responses

The Nexus Between Organised Crime and Terrorism: Types and Responses

Author: Letizia Paoli; Cyrille Fijnaut; Jan Wouters
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788979290
Published In: February 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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In the post-9/11 era, the nexus between organized crime and terrorism has raised much concern and has been widely discussed in both academic and policy circles, but is still largely misunderstood. This critical book contributes innovatively to the debate by distinguishing three types of nexus—interaction, transformation/imitation and similarities—and identifying the promoting factors of each type.

With its multifaceted but complementary chapters, the book provides conceptual and theoretical frameworks for readers, as well as the evidence needed to develop more realistic, effective and humane policies to tackle organized crime, terrorism and the nexuses between them. Bringing together a range of international multidisciplinary specialists, it includes three comparative analyses of worldwide transfers of personnel, weapons and money between organized crime and terrorism and 12 case studies examining local manifestations of the nexus in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Two other chapters further review the national, European and international policies adopted and implemented so far to deal with the different nexuses.

This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers in the fields of comparative law, criminal law and justice and public policy, who specialise in organised crime and terrorism and their control. It will also appeal to senior law enforcement officials and practitioners due to the counterintuitive policy implications drawn from the comparative analysis of the findings.

1. Introduction to the nexus between organized crime and terrorism

Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli and Jan Wouters

PART I. LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUALIZATION

2. Taking stock of the literature on the nexus between organized crime and terrorism

Letizia Paoli and Cyrille Fijnaut

3. Conceptualizing the nexus between organized crime and terrorism

Letizia Paoli and Cyrille Fijnaut

PART II. TRANSFER OF RESOURCES

4. Criminal pasts, terrorist futures? Jihadist recruits in Western Europe

Peter R. Neumann and Rajan Basra

5. Terrorists’ acquisition of firearms and explosives: criminal, legal and grey sources

Toine Spapens and Nils Duquet

6. The organized crime–terrorism nexus and its funding

Michael Levi

PART III. EUROPEAN CASE STUDIES

7. The nexus between organised crime and terrorism, and the attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016

Cyrille Fijnaut

8. Assessing the involvement in organized crime of jihadists from the Netherlands

Anton Weenink, Melvin R.J. Soudijn and Rudie J.M. Neve

9. Legal and law enforcement implications arising from the organized crime–terrorism nexus in Northern Ireland

Tom Obokata

10. To what extent was Basque terrorist group ETA involved in a nexus with organized crime? An economic analysis

Mikel Buesa and Thomas Baumert

11. Sweden: violent extremism and organized crime

Lars Korsell

PART IV. NON-EUROPEAN CASE STUDIES

12. The crime–terror nexus in Syria and Iraq

Christina Steenkamp

13. The nexus of organized crime and terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Matthew Phillips and Shelby Davis

14. Largely fleeting and hardly convergent: Libya’s crime–terror nexus

Mark Micallef and Matt Herbert

15. The terrorism–organized crime nexus in the Boko Haram

insurgency in Nigeria

Freedom C. Onuoha

16. Is there any nexus between terrorism and organized crime in Mexico?

Luis Astorga

17. Terrorism and organized crime in Colombia

Gustavo Duncan, Santiago Sosa and Jose Antonio Fortou

PART V. INTERNATIONAL POLICIES

18. Responding to the crime–terror nexus: the international level

Christophe Paulussen and Colin P. Clarke

19. The nexus between organized crime and terrorism: policy responses from the European Union and the Council of Europe

Thomas Van Poecke and Jan Wouters

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