Servants of the Devil: The Facilitators of the Criminal and Terrorist Economies - Couverture rigide

Touboul, Bernard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811229120 ISBN 13 : 9789811229121

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Since the end of the Cold War, liberal capitalism has spread worldwide without any significant ideological rivalry, characterized by the frenetic search for an ever-increasing return on capital and constantly-increasing profits, a generalized un-concern for the moral values of liberalism, and for social inequalities and human misery.

The book, Servants of the Devil: The Facilitators of the Criminal and Terrorist Networks, shows that this evolution has been possible, thanks to legitimate actors equipped with the legal, financial, technical, and influential means to facilitate the legitimization of criminals and the justification of such a criminal economy ― the "Servants of the Devil" acting as the "legitimate" facilitators of the criminal and terrorist economies.

The book aims to alert security authorities, government officials, business, professional and financial leaders, and the media that criminal and terrorist networks have thoroughly penetrated the political, economic, and social structures of the contemporary world, and they could not operate without the extensive and willing cooperation of these facilitators.

Recommendations are made in this book to alter the targets of law-enforcement forces and the justice system, by putting more emphasis on the facilitators by naming, shaming, and prosecuting them to seriously disable the criminals and terrorists. The legal structure needs to be altered, detailing procedures to be used by critical institutions, as well as the intelligence and analytic techniques to be developed to stay ahead of the criminals' own constantly altered techniques.

The book provides a detailed account of the problem and how it is corrupting the Western society, enhancing the need for a new economic paradigm that displays a real and actual economic understanding of the world and of any individual country's economic activity, and shifting the ways of economic analysis to bring out the actual strength and role of criminal and terrorist activities in local, regional, and international governance from the shadows.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Norman Bailey is currently Professor of Economic Statecraft at the Galilee International Management Institute of Israel. He was Chief Economist of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration, and a senior official of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the George W Bush administration. Besides government service, his background includes the military, business, finance, consulting, and teaching at the City University of New York. He has authored six books, two monographs, and hundreds of articles. A native of Chicago, Dr Bailey is the recipient of various awards, medals, honorary degrees, and orders of knighthood. He holds the degrees of Master of International Affairs and PhD from Columbia University. He is currently a resident of Netanya, Israel.

Bernard Touboul has been for the last 28 years an international senior consultant, advisor, and expert in Customs, Border Management, and International Trade Facilitation, working extensively on policy-making and implementing strategies for combatting illicit trafficking and commercial frauds along with promoting legitimate trade. He has a long experience in institutional and governmental development in many countries including in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. He was an official of the French Customs administration, and holds several graduate master degrees in international trade, business administration, political science, and national security affairs. He is the author of a few articles on money laundering, financing terrorism, and related topics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811229120
• ISBN 13: 9789811229121
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Éditeur: Bailey Norman A
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne