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Nonprofit Funds Central Americans’ Quest for Missing Family Members

Oct 23, 2012

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Call for Papers on Transnational Organized Crime

Oct 22, 2012

The Journal of International Affairs web component, JIA Online, is accepting submissions for publication in conjunction with the release of the fall/winter print issue on transnational organized crime. Authors are encouraged to submit academic articles, opinion pieces, and photo essays covering the relationship between transnational organized...

Vienna Conference Ends with Success, Questions Still Remain

Oct 21, 2012

U.S. Navy Seizes $26 Million of Cocaine in Pacific Ocean

Oct 18, 2012

Announcing the Global Public Policy Network Essay Contest Winner: Ana-Constantina Kolb

Oct 16, 2012

The Journal of International Affairs is pleased to announce that Ana-Constantina Kolb is this year’s winner of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) Essay Contest. Ana-Constantina Kolb is a German-Honduran graduate student in Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her essay analyzes how transnational organized crime in...

Mexico Announces Progress in Drug War

Oct 15, 2012

UN Conference on Transnational Organized Crime about to start in Vienna

Oct 13, 2012

Demand for Ivory for Religious Purposes Contributes to Poaching and Smuggling

Oct 12, 2012

MS-13 designated a transnational criminal organization by the Department of the Treasury

Oct 11, 2012

Today the Department of the Treasury announced the designation of the gang Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, as a transnational criminal organization (TCO) under Executive Order (EO) 13581. According to Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen, "MS-13 is...responsible for a multitude of crimes...

Announcing the Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay Contest Winner: Nemanja Mladenovic

Oct 09, 2012

The Journal of International Affairs is proud to announce that School of International and Public Affairs student, Nemanja Mladenovic, is the winner of this fall’s Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay Contest. Nemanja’s has written a provocative and insightful essay on the underpinnings of the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister...

Operation Pangea V targets counterfeit and illegal medical products

Oct 04, 2012

Between 25 September and 2 October, Interpol coordinated agencies in roughly 100 countries in an effort to combat counterfeit and illegal medical products. Operation Pangea V resulted in the worldwide shutdown of more than 18,000 illegal pharmacy websites, eighty arrests, and the seizure of over USD$10 million worth of pharmaceuticals...

Mexican cartels move into Ecuador

Oct 04, 2012

The drug trade through Ecuador has historically been controlled by Colombia’s criminal groups who, until recently, essentially held a monopoly over corridors moving through and out of the country. This is gradually changing however, with Mexican transnational criminal groups interested in moving further down the drug chain to cut out...

Crime at the US-Mexico border goes corporate

Sep 29, 2012

In the grotesque violence that has enveloped Mexico it's easy to lose sight of the fact that, ultimately, these criminal organizations are complex businesses that rely on careful accounting as much as assault rifles. The structures underlying the most successful criminal organizations are stable in a way that means capturing or killing the...

Treasury Sanctions Yakuza Clan

Sep 27, 2012

The US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sumiyoshi-kai clan of the Japanese Yakuza organized crime network, and two of the Sumiyoshi-kai leaders. According to the Treasury, the Yakuza and its crime clans are involved in weapons trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, fraud and money laundering. Treasury Under Secretary for...

As Central America confronts violence, our role is to offer assistance, says head of UNODC

Sep 25, 2012

Following a meeting with the President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov expressed the need for a coordinated regional strategy for Central America to combat transnational criminal networks. UNODC's role is to "work with Member States to offer increased support and assistance." On the issue of...

US Drug Enforcement Administration may reopen office in Uruguay

Sep 25, 2012

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is reportedly set to reopen its field office in Uruguay, a strong suggestion that the country is now playing a bigger role in the trafficking of drugs to the US. Uruguay is not a major drug producer, but drug traffickers are increasingly using it as a transit zone for drug shipments from Brazil and...

Human Trafficking Gang Arrested in Dubai

Sep 18, 2012

An anti-trafficking team from the Dubai Police's Department of Criminal Investigations arrested six members of a human trafficking organization, including the leader F. M. M. The traffickers brought young girls from other countries to the U.A.E. to serve as prostitutes. When recruiting girls, the members of the organization would provide girls'...

The Crime-Terrorism Nexus

Sep 13, 2012

The connection between organized crime and terrorism may seem obvious but the nexus remains blurred, both conceptually and in reality. Therefore, if we want peace operations and stabilization missions to perform more anti-crime and terrorism functions in the future, argues Wibke Hansen, then establishing greater clarity about the nexus is...

Tackling Human Trafficking

Sep 08, 2012

Human trafficking has become a debilitating phenomenon described as modern day slavery. It continues to thrive in broad daylight despite government and other institutional interventions to bring it under control. Human trafficking is estimated to be the third most profitable illegal economic business after illicit drugs and arms trafficking...

Of Chinese Snakeheads And Mexican Coyotes: Globalization Of Crime-Terror Pipelines – Analysis

Aug 31, 2012

The latest White House Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime and the Department of Defense Counternarcotics and Global Threats Strategy both clearly prioritize combating transnational criminal organizations as a cornerstone of a national security strategy that will effectively undercut foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Indeed...