Organized Crime and Illicit Trade

Virginia Comolli is Senior Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic StudiesVanda Felbab-Brown is a Senior Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution.Camino Kavanagh is an international consultant and Advisor to the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Cyber Security and ICT4 Peace Foundation.Karl Lallerstedt is Programme Director for Illicit Trade, Financial and Economic Crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and co-founder of Black Market Watch.Tuesday Reitano is Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.

• Introduction: A strategic challenge - Virginia Comolli.- Chapter One: The threat of illicit economies and the complex relations with state and society - Vanda Felbab-Brown.- Chapter Two: Organised crime as a threat to sustainable development: Understanding the evidence - Tuesday Reitano.- Chapter Three: IT and cyber capabilities as a force multiplier for transnational crime - Camino Kavanagh.- Chapter Four: Measuring illicit trade and its wider impact - Karl Lallerstedt.- Chapter Five: Catalysing and evaluating development responses to organised crime - Tuesday Reitano.- Chapter Six: A state-building response to organised crime, illicit economies, hybrid threats, and hybrid governance - Vanda Felbab-Brown.- Conclusion - Virginia Comolli.

“The book provides an overview of the challenges that local and international organizations have to face when dealing with tackling illicit trades. Generally, readers with security and political science background may find interesting the entire book … .” (Stefano Caneppele, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, July, 2019)