TraCCC Books

 

Human Traffic and Transnational Crime Edited by Sally Stoecker, Louise Shelley. 2005

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon—conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the European, Siberian, and far-eastern parts of Russia offer groundbreaking analyses of the motivations behind and reactions to this horrifying trend. Purchase

 

National Counter-Terrorism Strategies Legal, Institutional and Public Policy Dimensions in the US, Uk, France, Turkey and Russia. Edited by Robert Orttung, Andrey Makarychev. 2006

National Counter-Terrorism Strategies provides an in-depth analyses of terrorism trends and responses in the US, UK, France, Turkey and Russia. The contributors are scholars and operational people from each of the countries. They contribute to the existing literature on terrorism by analyzing their countries’

  • response to the terror-organized crime nexus,
  • coordination of state agencies fighting terrorism, and
  • ability to manage trade-offs between protecting civil liberties and ensuring security.
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    The book makes an important contribution by providing a comparative analysis of the various national responses to terrorism, showing where individual countries excel and lag behind. These analyses seek to provide the basis for improving the counter-terrorism approaches for each of the countries.

    The introductory chapters provide an analysis of current trends in terrorism today from a variety of different national perspectives. The different approaches and points of view allow the reader to gain a more nuanced understanding of terrorism and the current efforts to combat it. Purchase

     

    Transnational Crime and Peacekeeping: Comparative Approach (Conference Report. 2001)

    In Fall 2001, TraCCC organized a conference under the sponsorship of the McCormick Tribune Foundation entitled Transnational Crime and Peacekeeping: Comparative Perspectives that addressed these issues through the context of the Balkan region and Colombia. Both conferences were interdisciplinary and included various points of view from U.S. and international experts. To review the Conference Report click here.