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1. The UN Security Council and Organized Criminal Activity: Experiments in International Law Enforcement

Author:
James Cockayne
Publication Date:
03-2014
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
United Nations University
Abstract:
On 30 November 1943, Franklin Roosevelt was in Teheran, celebrating Winston Churchill's sixty-ninth birthday with Josef Stalin. FDR gave Churchill a Persian vase, and as discussion turned to the post-war order he passed an aide a pencil sketch of what was to become the United Nations.
Topic:
Crime, International Cooperation, International Law, Narcotics Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Piracy

2. The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa

Author:
Phil Williams and James Cockayne
Publication Date:
10-2009
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
International Peace Institute
Abstract:
An invisible tide is rising on the shores of West Africa, creeping into its slums, its banks, its courts, its barracks, and its government ministries. It is a tide of money, influence, and power, born from the drug trafficking that is sweeping the region. Cocaine produced in Latin America is transported to West Africa, and then on to Europe. From there, the proceeds find their way back to North and South America, fueling further investment and further narco-trafficking. Some of the profits from the trade stay in West Africa, laundered through construction projects and other avenues, and increasingly corrupting politics, society, and security institutions. As the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, recently put it: “Drug money is not only buying real estate and flashy cars: it is buying power.”
Topic:
Crime and Narcotics Trafficking
Political Geography:
Africa and West Africa