Global Organized Crime

I. Introduction

This web page is intended to address global organized crime and it's growing importance for international security. This issue is emerging in international relations as a primary component in security and foreign policy making. Global organized crime activities are elusive because many global orgainzed crime groups operate through a variety of high tech means, which are difficult to trace. The groups operations have global implications such as illegal biological, nuclear, and chemical weapons trade. With the high stakes of global organized crime it is imperative that the international community develop a means to deal with these issues. As graduate students in the School of International Service at American University we have developed this page as a means of providing background on this important issue.

Authors:

Chip Arvantides and Jamey Butcher

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II. What is Organized Crime?	III. The Emergence of G.O.C. and It's Transnational Influence	IV. The Impact of G.O.C. on US Security
V. The Columbian and Mexican Cartels	VI. The Russian Mafiya	VII. The Asian Triads
VIII. The Italian Mafias	IX. The Nigerian Criminal Enterprises	X. Sources