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100 1 _aGlenny, Misha.
245 1 0 _aMcMafia :
_ba journey through the global criminal underworld /
_cMisha Glenny.
250 _a1st Vintage books ed.
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bVintage Books,
_c2009.
300 _axx, 375, [1] pages, [16] pages of plates :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c20 cm
500 _a"With a new foreword."--Cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aForeword to the Vintage edition -- Introduction -- pt. I. The fall of communism -- Death of an American -- Bloody lucre -- The Mafiya : midwives of capitalism -- Spreading the word -- pt. II. Gold, money, diamonds, and banks -- Aliyah -- Xanadu I -- Xanadu II -- The theater of crime -- Black and white -- pt. III. Drugs and cybercrime -- Buddies -- March of fear -- Code Orange -- pt. IV. The future of organized crime -- The overunderworld -- The future of organized crime -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Index.
520 _a"With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the world-wide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP."--Cover.
650 0 _aOrganized crime.
650 0 _aTransnational crime.
650 7 _aOrganized crime.
_2fast
650 7 _aTransnational crime.
_2fast
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