| Synopsis: |
This edited volume is based upon a simple premise: Historical accounts of organised crime and terrorism offer critically important lessons for understanding and responding to contemporary threats and phenomena. The chapters provide cutting edge historical research into different elements of organised crime and terrorism, including exploring critical issues around the links between terrorism and organised crime, as well as exploring key case studies from a range of countries and periods. Critical `lessons learned' are drawn out from each chapter, providing valuable insights for current policy, practice and scholarship.This book is an indispensable guide for understanding the wider history of terrorism and organised crime. It maps key historical changes and trends in this area and underlines the vital importance of history in understanding critical contemporary issues.Taking an interdisciplinary approach and written by leading criminologists, historians and political scientists, this book will be of particular interest to students of terrorism/counter-terrorism, organised crime, drug policy, criminology, security studies, politics, international relations and history. |