Criminal Prosperity - Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Financial Crisis After Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Guilhem Fabre is a sinologist and socio-economist, and a professor at the Faculte des Affaires Internationales at the University of Le Havre (France). Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the money-laundering activities of illicit agents, and how their criminal economy has distorted local financial intermediation by stimulating real estate and stock market bubbles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 The Mirror of History Opium and colonization 2 Drugs and Post-Communism: The Chinese Case The rise of drug trafficking and consumption in China The new drugs war The expansion and diversification of drugs supplies Yunnan: Drugs and geopolitics in Sino-Burmese relations 3 The Socio-economic Stakes of Drug Trafficking The laundering matter The role of offshore banking 4 Japan: The Yakuza Recession Lessons from the Japanese crisis 5 Crisis and Laundering in Mexico: From the 'Tequila Effect' to the 'Cocaine Effect' 6 Crisis and Laundering in Thailand: The Provincial Godfathers' Launch on Bangkok

Product details

• Authors: Guilhem Fabre, Fabre Guilhem
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138878914
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87891-4
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Business and Management, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Business & management, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General