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Week 8 Organized crime actors

Week 8 Organized crime actors. Two parts. 1. Global cocaine smuggling networks: an example of materialist social science methods. 2. 'Global solutions for global problems?'. An argument about money laundering: international co-operation need not always work best. Reagan, Nicaragua, 1986.

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Week 8 Organized crime actors

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  1. Week 8 Organized crime actors

  2. Two parts 1. Global cocaine smuggling networks: an example of materialist social science methods. 2. 'Global solutions for global problems?'.An argument about money laundering: international co-operation need not always work best.

  3. Reagan, Nicaragua, 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOnENVylxPI 1.30 – 2.10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJym6U6Xccc

  4. Some Commonwealth successes in Caribbean ...

  5. Partially facilitated by difficulties governing the Sahara

  6. Gioia  Tauro, Calabria

  7. John Paul Getty III

  8. But in 2018 a regional solution to a regional (?) problem ...

  9. Global problems, global solutions?

  10. Part II: Money laundering Multilateralism hasn’t always been the answer 1. Networking between sovereign states (common in 1990s) 2. U.S-dominated multilateral strategies (common in early 2000s) 3. U.S. unilateral strategies (common today)

  11. An old phenomenon but a recent global governance ‘problem’

  12. The G7’s Financial Action Task Force (1989-) A network between specially created agencies Jones and Hameiri (2014)

  13. Works even though states keep sovereignty because blacklisting banks produces capital flight

  14. Post 9/11 US wants more enforcement and geographical coverage Very strong multilateralism: Res 1372 first ever USC ‘legislative act’? See Sandholtz and Stiles, International Norms (OUP: 2008, pp.120-128)

  15. But ‘dollar unilateralism’ now preferred (Susan Katzenstein 2015) Unique status of dollar as reserve currency means US can enforce alone Forcing transnational corporations to gather intelligence for government

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