Terrorism Drug-Trafficking and Organised Crime : Challenges for International Peace and Security
Contents: Preface. 1. Terrorism: definitions, dimensions and implications. 2. Pattern of drug trafficking in Africa and Asia: security and economic implications. 3. Economic and human dimensions of drug-trafficking in Americas, Europe and Oceania. 4. Nexus among terrorism, drug trafficking and organised crime: new threats for international security. 5. Crime proliferation and security deterioration: a case study of the post-Apartheid South Africa. 6. Drug trafficking and organised crime: issues and challenges for the contemporary Russian economy and security. 7. Russian strategy for combating drug-trafficking and organised crime. 8. Organised crime and economic development: challenges for the New South Africa. 9. Combating terrorism, drug-trafficking and organised crime: strategy of the United Nations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
"Terrorism, drug-trafficking and organised crime is an original, comprehensive and critical study of the emergence of non-traditional security threats and its complex and complicated operation in various parts of the world in different forms.
Indeed, non-traditional security threats, like terrorism, drug-trafficking, organized crime, piracy and illegal immigration etc., have posed an entirely new challenges to the international peace and security and, therefore, detrimental to global peace, stability and prosperity.
In this book, the author has made a very comprehensive and critical analysis of the concept of terrorism and on that basis conclusively established that in order to tackle the menace of terrorism effectively and within a given time-frame, the international community must define terrorism clearly and also evolve consensus on it.
The author has also critically examined the actual as well as potential impact of the widespread misuse of drugs in different parts of the world. It is the most comprehensive study on the issue of drug-trafficking and its effects on the contemporary security, economy and, of course, polity." (jacket)
