Deadly transfers and the global playground : transnational security threats in a disorderly world /

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Author / Creator:Mandel, Robert, 1949-
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 139 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11116764
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ISBN:9780313028113
0313028117
9780275962289
0275962288
0275962288
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 135) and index.
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Summary:This comprehensive study provides an integrated analysis of the global security environment and the consequent blossoming of ominous flows or "deadly tranfers". It includes the behaviour of rogue states, terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations and deviant individuals.
Other form:Print version: Mandel, Robert, 1949- Deadly transfers and the global playground. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Emerging Global Playground; 2 The Spread of Deadly Transfers; 3 Intractable Causes, Pernicious Consequences, and Futile Cures; 4 Clandestine Arms Flows; 5 Illegal Migrant Flows; 6 Illicit Drug Flows; 7 Hazardous Materials Flows; 8 Infectious Disease Flows; 9 Information Disruption Flows; 10 National Hypocrisy and Deadly Transfers; 11 Crippled International Rules of the Game and the Global Playground; 12 Security Implications Turning a Playground into a Civil Community; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.