Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to transnational threats / Kimberley L. Thachuk -- Narcoterrorism : a definitional and operational transnational challenge / Andr�e D. Hollis -- Human trafficking and smuggling / Francis Miko -- Addressing the nuclear smuggling threat / David Smigielski -- Transnational crime and small arms trafficking and proliferation / Boris Saavedra -- Balkan trafficking in historical perspective / Esther A. Bacon -- Drug smuggling in central Eurasia / Svante Cornell -- Smuggling and trafficking in Africa / Audra Grant -- Chinese crime organizations as transnational enterprises / Anny Wong -- Japanese trafficking and smuggling / Rollie Lal -- South Asian organized crime and linkages to terrorist networks / Rollie Lal -- Weak states and porous borders : smuggling along the Andean Ridge / Richard L. Millett -- Smuggling and the Caribbean : tainting paradise throughout history / James L. Zackrison -- The rise and diversification of human smuggling and trafficking into the United States / Louise I. Shelley -- Implications for U.S. national security / Rhea Siers.

The editor has compiled a collection of essays that provide an overview of the dark side of globalization and establish strong connections between organized crime and terrorist groups. The world carefully documents the extent of these transnational challenges - - ranging from nacro-terrorism to human trafficking to small-arms trafficking. This book includes chapters that cover countries, regions and international issues. In addition, the US is treated both as a potential leader in attempts to control transnational crime and as a venue for it. Many will be surprised by the extent of human trafficking and forms of slavery within the US. Each transnational threat is discussed, the security implications, elucidated, and the successes and failures to control them explained.