Transnational Criminal Orgs

Catalog description

This course aims to introduce the subject of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) as a threat to national and international security. The course will discuss the history of organized crime , its main characteristics, how it differs from "ordinary" crime, and how it has changed in the decades after the Second World War. The focus will be on the "new organized crime," its main business activities (arms-, drug-, and human- trafficking; corporate fraud; cyber crime; and terrorism), and on what kind of challenges these organizations pose to states and to international security.