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Overview

Fishman, Ted C. Making a Killing. (August 2002). Harper's Magazine, 305 (1827).

Freedom House's Annual Survey of Freedom in the world Survey and Political Rights and Civil Liberties

The Internationalization of Criminal Justice - available through National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts database

Multiple faces of the war on terror: The on going operations range from bombing and ground assaults to tightening controls over human migration, and putting an end to narcotics production, trafficking and arms smuggling. December 12, 2001. Turkish Daily News

Naim, Moises. The Five Wars of Globalization . (Jan/Feb2003). Foreign Policy, 134, p28.

National Institute of Justice International - Global Links

Sklair, Leslie. Competing Conceptions of Globalization. (Winter 2003). Journal of World Systems Research, 9 (1).

Arms Trafficking

Silverstein, Ken. Comrades in Arms.(Jan/Feb2002).Washington Monthly ; 34 (1/2), p19.

Leiken, Robert S. Controlling the global corruption epidemic. (Winter96/97). Foreign Policy , 105, p55.

Kipling, Gregory. Old guns for a new war: the resurgence of arms smuggling in Costa Rica (September, 2002). Peace Magazine , 18(3) pg 6-7. (available in Lexis-Nexis - search Peace Magazine using title: "old guns for a new war"). See instructions below.

Web sites and air travel are monitored, so why not arms sales? The Worldpaper, August 7, 2002 Wednesday, 726 words, Matthew Brunwasser (available in Lexis-Nexis - search using keywords: "air travel monitored"). See instructions below.

Drugs and crime

CNN Specials - Colombia: War Without End

Tree, Sanho. The war at home: our jails overflow with nonviolent drug offenders. Have we reached the point where the drug war causes more harm than the drugs themselves? (May-June 2003). Sojourners 32 (3), p20 (8).

Intellectual Property

Cole, George. Attack of the clones becomes a legal drama: DIGITAL PIRACY: A Hollywood battle for the right to use software to copy DVDs has big implications for intellectual property law . (July 15, 2003). The Financial Times , p11.

Evans, David S. Who Owns Ideas? (November 2002 - December 2002). Foreign Affairs, p. 160.

Holdsworth, Nick. Rampant DVD/VHS piracy plagues Russia: Hollywood blockbusters hit Moscow streets weeks before global release. (July 8, 2003). Hollywood Reporter , 379 (21), p8.

Knopper, Steve. The Wanted Man : By suing Jesse Jordan, the RIAA turned him into a folk hero. (August 21, 2003). Rolling Stone, p. 35.

Murdoch, David.Facing the Online Music . (July 2003). Inc. , 25 (7), p26.

Waldmeir, Patti. Why It's Much Too Easy to Steal Music. (July 7, 2003). Financial Times.

Alien Smuggling

Witkin, Gordon; Hawkins, Dana. One way, $28,000. (April 14, 1997).U.S. News & World Report, 122 (14), p39.

Money Laundering

D'Agostino, David M. GAO Report, Extent of Money Laundering Through Credit Cards is Unknown. (August 22, 2002). GAO Reports,GAO-02-670.

First part of report explains stages of money laundering (also available through Lexis Nexis).

Lynch, Timothy. The Paper Chase . (January 20, 2003). Forbes , 171 (2), p36.

Nearly 8 of 10 U.S. Lawyers Favor Globalization of Law ; Survey finds money transmission/laundering tops list of areas needing standardization. (July 7, 2003). PR Newswire .

Petras, James. Dirty Money: Greasing the Wheels of the American Empire. (September/October 2002). Canadian Dimension , 36 (5), p27.

U.S. paints bleak picture of laundering controls in Latin America (May, 2003). Money Laundering Alert, 14 (7), p. 14. (available through Lexis Nexis).

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Last Update: March 31, 2006