Thursday, September 17, 2009

Glenny on International Organized Crime

Misha Glenny, author of McMafia (2008), talks about international organized crime, a topic that, joined at the hip with gray marketing and conflict profiteering, I believe to be one the most important aspects of the modern world order.



A quote from anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom on black and gray market systems: "These systems are not invisible because of any intrinsic nature of their own, but because of an unwillingness to see them . . . . This unwillingness to see into the shadows may in part be due to the degree to which the extra-state and extra-legal are woven into the fabric of everyday life and formal institutions." -Shadows of War (2004)
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