Title Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future / Louise I. Shelley

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : the fundamental transformation of illicit trade -- Illicit trade : past as prologue -- The making of modern illicit trade : from 1800 to the end of the Cold War -- How did we get here? Drivers of the post-Cold War expansion -- The tragic trajectory of the Rhino Horn trade -- Business models : historical transformation of illicit entrepreneurship and trade -- Destroyers of human life -- Destroyers of the planet -- Summing up -- Conclusion : countering the challenges posed by illicit trade Summary A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade. Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade--the markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilizing phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods--drugs, human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeits--and contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property. Demonstrating that illicit trade is a business the global community cannot afford to ignore and must work together to address, Dark Commerce considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge Analysis Advertising Africa Arms industry Auction Backpage Beneficiary Bitcoin Botnet Bribery Business ethics CITES Camorra Child pornography Cigarette smuggling Climate change Cold War Colonialism Commodity Competition Consumer Corruption Counterfeit Credit card Crime Currency Customer Cybercrime Dark web Deforestation Developed country EBay Economic inequality Economy Employment Entrepreneurship Environmental crime Europol Export Facilitator Financial crimes Fraud Funding Global Community Globalization Governance Heroin Human trafficking Illegal drug trade Illegal immigration Illicit financial flows Income Insurgency Intellectual property Ivory trade Latin America Law enforcement Malware Marketing Money laundering Natural resource North Korea Online marketplace Opioid Organized crime Panama Papers Payment system Payment People smuggling Pesticide Piracy Poaching Politician Private sector Prostitution Ransomware Rhinoceros Sex trafficking Sicilian Mafia Slavery Smuggling Supply (economics) Supply chain Sustainability Tax evasion Tax Technological revolution Technology Terrorism Theft Trade route Transnational crime Urbanization Vendor Virtual world Volkswagen War Wealth World War II World economy World population Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-348) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2018) Subject Black market. Crime and globalization. Internet fraud. International trade -- Economic aspects Commercial policy. Computer fraud. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. Computer fraud Internet fraud Crime and globalization Black market Commercial policy International trade -- Economic aspects Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691184296 0691184291

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