Dark Logic: Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security - Softcover

"This book provides a highly compelling analysis of the ways in which transnational organized crime and illicit markets threaten human, national, and international security. By asking fundamental questions and answering them in a systematic and incisive fashion, Mandel makes a unique and important contribution to both the understanding of organized crime and the nature of the challenges to security in the twenty-first century." -- Phil Williams, Wesley W. Posvar Professor of International Security and Director, Matthew B. Ridgway Center * University of Pittsburgh * "In this well-researched and highly informative work, Mandel succeeds in effectively outlining the security impacts of international crime that persist in an anarchic yet interdependent system of sovereign states, in which local disruptions have ramifications for regional and even global stability . . . Highly recommended." -- M. O'Gara * CHOICE * "Dr. Mandel's works are usually ahead of their time, and this is no exception. He was the first to identify 'transnational, non-state actors' as the 'future' most pressing threats to the US. In Dark Logic he correctly advances the logic that criminal cartels-not just terrorist organizations-are a threat to the US, the West, and international order." "Overall, [Dark Logic] would make an informative, well-written, and highly accessible undergraduate-level coursebook." -- Reza Barmaki * Critical Criminology * "Dark Logic is an urgent read about the threat to peace that often doesn't get enough attention." -- Midwest Book Review

This book constitutes the first major study showing (1) when transnational organized crime is likely to use corruption and violence tactics, (2) when transnational criminal activities most affect individual and state security, and (3) when the negative consequences of these tactics and activities can be most successfully combated.