Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century

About the Book

This collection of essays introduces the thriving illicit industries and activities within the global economy whose growth challenges traditional notions of wealth, power, and progress. Through essays contributed by leading experts and scholars, "Deviant Globalization" argues that far from being marginal, illicit activities are a fundamental part of globalization. Narcotrafficking, human trafficking, the organ trade, computer malware, transnational gangs are just as much artifacts of globalization as are CNN and McDonald's, free trade and capital mobility, accessible air travel and container shipping. In fact, almost every technology, process, and regulation that enables mainstream globalization is an enabler of deviant globalization. This unique book explains why understanding deviant globalization as a systemic and integral part of globalization is crucial for setting up policies that will maximize the benefits of globalization and minimize its ill effects. Going beyond the usual pro/con arguments about globalization, "Deviant Globalization" seeks to initiate a critical debate about the choices it presents to governments, firms, supra-national organizations, and individuals. An accessible treatment of the underbelly of globalization, the book offers a systematic treatment of the difficult policy choices that it creates and describes a much more complex and symbiotic relationship between illicit and mainstream globalization.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Section I. People
1. Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigration
Patrick Radden Keefe
2. The Sex Trade
Sean Flynn
3. Global Sex Trafficking
Joni Seager
4. The black market in human organs
Frederike Ambagtsheer
5. The Dark Side of Dubai
Johann Hari

Section II. Drugs
6. Smuggling Made Easy: Landlocked Paraguay Emerges as a Top Producer of Contraband Tobacco
Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt, Marcelo Soares
7. West Africa's International Drug Trade
Stephen Ellis
8. The Inland Empire
Nick Reding

Section III. Resources
9. The illicit abalone trade in South Africa
Jonny Steinberg
10. Toxic Exports: Despite Global Treaty, Hazardous Waste Trade Continues
Jennifer Clapp
11. The Stolen Forests: Inside the Covert War on Illegal Logging
Raffi Khatchadourian
12. Blood Oil
Sebastian Junger

Section IV New Organizations
13. Inside the Global Hacker Service Economy
Scott Berinato
14. Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped?
Raymond Baker & Eva Joly
15. Weapons for Warlords: Arms Trafficking in the Gulf of Aden
Andrew Black
16. Future Conflict: Criminal Insurgencies, Gangs and Intelligence
John P. Sullivan
17. Excerpts from Brave new war: the next stage of terrorism and the end of globalization
John Robb

Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author :

Nils Gilman is Senior Practitioner at Monitor 360, a San Francisco based group that helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) .

Jesse Goldhammer is a partner at the Monitor Group and Monitor 360, which helps governments and private sector organizations to undertake strategic, analytic, organizational and institutional transformation. He is the author of The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Review :
This carefully curated selection of provocative and accessible essays helps us come to grips with the dark underside of the global economy, and sheds new light on what we can and should do about it. - Peter Andreas, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Deviant Globalization shows the dark side of global trade, the illicit flows, black markets, and trafficking in drugs and human bodies that are as much a part of the new world (dis)order as multinational corporations and instant financial transfers. Contributors push us towards a more complete moral and political assessment of globalization and the development of better theories to account for power relations, inequalities, and collateral damage. - Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council In the shadows of the move to a globalized economy, in places its uncritical partisans would rather not look, an equally new and equally globalized set of phenomena has arisen. In this pathbreaking book, Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer, and Steven Weber have gone far beyond registering the existence of ‘deviant globalization.' They have theorized it, and shown that what crops up at the intersection of ethical disparity and regulatory inefficiency is now a permanent feature of global affairs. Observers of the world will benefit from this insight, while teachers and students will gratefully thank the editors for compiling the evidence in one place. - Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History