Suggested Resources
Transnational Organized Crime
Farah, Douglas, and Stephen Braun. 2007. Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible. Hoboken: Wiley.
Glenny, Misha. 2009. McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld. New York: Vintage.
Handelman, Stephen. 1995. Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. 1986. Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan’s Criminal Underworld. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Keefe, Patrick Radden. 2009. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream. New York: Anchor Books.
Naím, Moisés. 2005. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy. New York: Anchor Books.
Nordstrom, Carolyn. 2007. Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Robinson, Jeffrey. 2000. The Merger: The Conglomeration of International Organized Crime. Woodstock: The Overlook Press.
Saviano, Roberto. 2007. Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System. Translated by Virginia Jewiss. New York: Picador.
Stille, Alexander. 1995. Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. New York: Vintage.
Whiting, Robert. 2000. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. New York: Vintage.
Corruption
Beattie, Alan. 2009. False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World. New York: Riverhead Books.
Center for Global Integrity. 2004. The Corruption Notebooks: 25 Investigative Journalists Report on Abuses of Power in Their Home Country. Washington: Public Integrity Books.
Collier, Paul. 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fukuyama, Francis. 1995. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. New York: Free Press Paperbacks.
Klitgaard, Robert. 1990. Tropical Gangsters: One Man’s Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa. New York: Basic Books.
Lewis, Charles. 2004. The Buying of the President 2004: Who’s Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers—and What They Expect in Return. New York: Perennial.
Maas, Peter. 2009. Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. New York: Vintage.
Noonan, John T. 1987. Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Rotberg, Robert I., ed. 2009. Corruption, Global Security, and World Order. Washington: Brookings.
Shaxson, Nicholas. 2008. Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Terrorism
Barber, Benjamin R. 2001. Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy. New York: Ballantine Books.
Bobbitt, Philip. 2008. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Dickey, Christopher. 2009. Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—the NYPD. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gunaratna, Rohan. 2003. Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. New York: Berkley Books.
Hoffman, Bruce. 2006. Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2003. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Mayer, Jane. 2008. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Ideals. New York: Doubleday.
Murakami, Haruki. 2000. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel. New York: Vintage.
Peters, Gretchen. 2009. Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.
Reich, Walter, ed. 1998. Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
Weimann, Gabriel. 2006. Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press.
Wright, Lawrence. 2006. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Vintage.
Cyber Threats
Lessig, Lawrence. 2006. Code Version 2.0. New York: Basic Books.
Weimann, Gabriel. 2006. Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press.